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I learnt a lot this semester. At first I felt like I had really let myself down when it came to choosing what to do for Lang Craigs and after being turned down flat for my ideas about climbing, I had to go back to the drawing board. I began to look into Overtoun house, and the history behind its architect John Smith. There was an interesting story surrounding his daughter and a murder trail held in Glasgow during 1857. This line of inquiry led me to the Mitchell Library where I discovered some maps from that time, and I found out that the person who was murdered; Pierre Emile L'Angelier, was buried in an unmarked grave in Ramshorn graveyard in Glasgow. I made it my mission one night to find his grave, but to no avail, instead I did find another tree surgeon artist, she was putting on a fourth year painting exhibition with a group of hers.

The problem with making a map with other people's work shown on it is having to rely on those people to get their locations to you on time. This type of work I have never tried before and will never try again. From the painstaking copying of the map section by section from digimaps, to the focus on other peoples work, it was all just soul crushing; something I didn't realise till it was too late.

This experience has taught me that I need to be more selfish with my time, and work for myself instead of thinking that I’m doing people favours with my work, because I'm only doing this for me. No one else actually cares.

And if I start to hate what I’m doing and not enjoy it then I can just stop and try something else, instead of stressing over it and pushing through to the bitter end.

I don’t know why I didn't do a more environmental piece in the end, it’s my passion to use what's already given to me when I arrive in an environment, just take the evolution of my studio space as an example. First in year two, then in third year, the first thing I wanted to do was deconstruct
er thing I want to do is be in the studios more, but lately I have very little motivation to go. In foundation I couldn't wait to get in and start work but here people were hardly ever in so it felt like I wouldn’t be missing anything.

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Documentation of the final work I completed in the studio.

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This was the presentation from my artist pitch.

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‘Map Lore’ /2022/ Material-Paper, A1, series of printed maps.

Maps of the site to be handed out by an ‘old man’ to the general public and anyone else who wants to hunt for art treasure.

(The ‘old man’ might be found at the site entrances earlier on, but he will be moving around the site throughout the day.)

This work hopes to encapsulate the feeling of teamwork and comradery through the presentation of individual works, their location, and the idea the audience will be searching for them.

It’s focus is upon the shared experience of the audience and the artists, who were tasked to exhibit work in Lang Craigs. It therefore describes our links, fractures and frays through a cartographic re-imagination. It portrays the artists and their work as treasure to hunt for, and puts the audience in positions of intrepid adventurers.

I wanted to utilise the other artists' sincere amalgamations to give context to my own ideas. To give them life and form in my own creation as a complete reflection of my perceived environment. I wanted to give our shared task and goal of exhibiting to an audience in Lang Craigs precedence over anything else. And I wanted to craft ‘Map Lore’ by hand with tools passed down to me from my grandfather who was a Cartographer, and who frequently took me and my little sister on pirate treasure hunts.

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A description of my work on the cargo website that a friend put together for the exhibition.

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Louis Pearson — SEA3 Lang Craigs Exhibition

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Louis Pearson - Map Lore Maps of the site to be handed out by an ‘old man’ to the general public and anyone else who wants to hunt for art...

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Essay on the effect of memory and panpsychism in Art

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Essay on the effect of memory and panpsychism in Art