Major Project

Came back from rooting around old boxes and files in my gran’s house at the weekend and turned up some interesting nuggets of information. I found a commemorative album for the 8th Army, printed in 1944 that seems to parallel the China book given to my Japanese grandad. Also found out more about my grandfather’s time in North Africa and just writing to a surviving member of his group who currently lives in Australia.

With the approach to the project, I’m thinking of keeping the scrapbook idea, using the materials I already have and place them alongside a series of parallel landscape images that begin in my grandads’ rural villages and gradually end up in their desert postings. Having a few wacky ideas, but at the moment nothing seems to suite this project better than a more formal landscape approach. Also I’m wondering if the two parallel pictures visually connect in some way, it might make it more interesting…