Towards the end of the residency, one of the things I wanted to do was to share back with those who had contributed some of the process and outcomes of my time working at the London Cancer Hub. So we planned an event at the ICR to do just that.
I was finding it really complex to work out how to convey all the thinking that I’ve been doing during the residency, and then my fabulous colleague, Siobhan Kneale, who has been working with me on behalf of Sutton Council and Sutton STEAMS ahead, suggested putting together a mind map.
I did, and it grew, and grew, and grew. Here it is in its semi-final form. It has proved an invaluable way to organise my ideas and to record my thinking. It doesn’t follow a single type of categorisation – the joy of a mindmap is that I can set creative ideas in the same context as noting ideas about the two ecologies and then branch into glass techniques and technical exploration. It is very much a personal record rather than any form of analytic, and highlights not everything I learned but those things that stuck out to me.
I also put together a map of metaphors according to how closely I found them to apply to the London Cancer Hub, the Cancer Ecosystem or both. Not a scientific process, more a finger in the air type of approach, but it will be useful to me nonetheless in capturing my thinking and shaping potential artwork.
I prepared prints of both of these for the Closing Event to share with participants and anyone else who might be interested…
GLASS BODIES 