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This project involved travelling down the Suffolk Coast with the longshore drift and running three public engagement days, in collaboration with visual artist Jac Campbell and with help from Suffolk Secrets and the Suffolk Coasts & Heaths National Landscape.
Day one was located at Dunwich Beach and involved engaging the public in-situ mapping tidelines over the day.
It was interesting to see the strandlines mapped in blue, yellow and red flags.
We looked at the environmental impact of erosion on the coast and man-made and natural objects found washed ashore.
Day two moved to Old Felixstowe and looked at the Victorian art of seaweed collections. Sorting seaweed into brown, green and red made identification easier. Interesting conversations were enabled involving the tide, pollution and shipping.
Day three was spent at Landguard Point, looking at ways of collecting natural objects found above the shoreline and how to record theses without taking anything away from the beach. Finding eight fossils was exciting, but how to best record them so that can be left behind? Experimenting with various recording methods – both Darwinian Collector-style and modern – it was interesting to see different collections created and shared.
Suffolk Young Carers also came on this day and created sculptures from natural objects.
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