Stonehenge 2008 - Julia Midgley
This year, 2008, I concentrated again on the passage of a days work / excavation. One drawing per day on graph paper, or sometimes a layer of tracing paper over the graph paper echoing the archaeologists own working methods. Small water colour sketches made daily reflected the heavy rainfall. Wet weather - wet media.
I found my attention continually drawn to fencing and barriers. Barriers protected trenches, and the monument, but also prevented visitors straying too close. Fences also lined the roadside, car parks and pathways providing a view from the Avenue akin to a musical score. Visitors seen from the Avenue, (small scale against the score pattern of the fencing), took photographs holding cameras aloft. They resembled pilgrims paying a form of homage. This is material to develop in the studio.