The Water Replies
SEVEN are really excited to be involved in Metal’s public participation project for this year’s Estuary Festival 2020. It’s right up our street, a journaling project!
Metal and Cement Fields are asking members of the public living and working on the Thames Estuary in South Essex and North Kent, to create a journal responding to ‘The Water Replies’ and providing free workshops in journaling and poetry writing.
We attended the first journaling workshop led by artist Heidi Wigmore, our mentor and champion and we’re delighted that we got a special mention on the night!
Chalkwell Hall was buzzing with activity, groups of people gathered around tables ready to create!
Loved the first prompt, the opening page of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness ready for us to alter. There are no rules here, we were given these ideas and asked to think about the flow of the water:
- Highlight words, circle words, cross out text
- Make a new thread or sentence
- Stream of consciousness, see what words pop out at you!
- Cover the rest of the page with paint, collage, marker pens whatever you like
Here’s my page added to the journal, and we’re off!
We were each then given a small section of map that included sections of the Thames to stick into a page of the journal – look at the lines and marks on the map:
- Add to them
- Extend the lines
- Extend lines of the river across other pages or the whole journal
All in all a great start to this project. We will fill our journals and return them to Metal for display in a library/reading room. It will be exciting to see everyone’s responses in September!
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