A site's narrative shaped by the occupancy of external forces
Transforming Terrains aims to share new ways people can understand the sites they encounter through connecting them with the terrain. This project investigates a methodology as a means to translate the narrative of a site’s transformation, through giving presence to the marks embedded within the terrain. Drawing and casting processes are used predominantly to articulate a narrative of the external forces occupying a site. They have become two methods that work alongside each other, each revealing a different way of reading the site. The process of reading is important because it speaks to the geological process of creating compressed recordings (layers) of time; unpacking these layers we can begin to more deeply understand a site’s compressed transformation. The provided imagery documents the accumulation of recorded marks through drawings and casting in response to site case studies of Takapuna Beach (coastal), pavers outside my house (domestic), and St Paul Street (urban).
