drawing expertise

today - more work on trying to visualise different kinds of expertise:

pete loaned me his mark-up kit and gave us one of his special sample bags where you mark:
site name
specific area of site
context info (layer/deposit)
description
accession no.

this is a system that could be used to inventorise anything - even the shelves at asda! in fact - some museums use a barcode system just like supermarkets.

TRIANGLE 1 = save in case of emergency
TRIANGLE 2 = not so important

What would you save if your house were on fire?

Colin has a different system again - although there are cross-overs:

The dominant visual mode is the bird's-eye-view, but there is also the view over time - the distant past and the predicted future. Information gleaned from these viewpoints is then used to defend a patch of ground 1 metre squared. I need to find something by John Clare to reinforce this idea of attachment and close-up vision.

I have found plenty of maps and letters from curators from the twenties asking for paintings at cut-down prices for extraordinary reasons.

And finally - a picture of Joe in the 'booth of expertise'.