Sunday, 8 March 2009

The Field: space-based processes

Once the GPS drawing had been created we were asked to document the path that was taken therefore covering the space-based processes of the space-based drawing. This reverted back to traditional forms of documentation such as notes and collage as a method for displaying the processes made in creating the GPS drawing. For my documentation I decided to photograph sections of the path I took and then put these into a collage. To be able to relate the collage to the sections of the path I placed the images along a drawing of the path I took. This ensured that the documentation was relevant to the drawing and process to which it referred. The collage I produced is as follows:

To see more about this collage go to GPS Path Photos. Although this collage does show all of the important sections of the path that I took I do not feel it is all that effective as an image. The page is too cluttered in some areas to be able to read properly and it is in some ways difficult to know what order the images were taken. This therefore is not as effective in documenting the path taken as it could be. It may have been better just to lay the images out linearly so that each image could be viewed and the order they were taken would be obvious. However it is a thorough documentation of the areas that were covered in the creation of the GPS drawing so there is a lot of information available from the image.
Overall the space-based processes section of The Field helps to inform further the space-based navigation section and to provide a better representation of the events that occured during the navigation task.

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