Wednesday, 28 September 2011

The Thames Poetry Wall



Our trip this week will be visiting this site to take some photos of potential sites for the poems along Bankside between Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Poems chosen ideally need to reference the thames in this area.

Initial Ideas

  • Reflect other side of the river
  • An Environmental Poem
  • Poems on tubes
  • Option of being landscape
  • No images or illustration 
  • Shortened poems will attract readers whereas longer poems tend to put people off reading them, short attention span.
  • Cutout lettering/engraving.. texture
  • Poster placed on tidal part of the river so that when tide goes in and out more of the poem is revealed.
  • What happens at night? lighting or glowing? (sundials? dependent on legibility)
  • How close do I want the readers to be until they can clearly see it?
  • Legibility, typeface and colouring
  • Will a shiny surface disturb legibility, think of surface textures
  • How to draw the readers in
  • Songs about the Thames?




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