The outcome for this workshop was to produce a visual essay in response to a walk that had been mapped out around the city of Leeds in a way that it would spell 'Here'. To make my visual essay coherent I came up with a system of documenting my walk. My system was to only record what I could find on the ground throughout the walk. This seemed like an interesting point of focus as when looking for typography in space be it obvious or something that only appears typographical, ground level is not where the majority of typography is found. I am more interested in the words and things in space that are not usually noticed, when walking you are looking around your environment not at your feet. This focus would hopefully lead to a more interesting piece of work.
By only focusing on the typographies I could find on the floor in the contemporary city scape a lot of what I have documented has a very temporary feel to it, mainly from builders and technicians marking the ground for construction, some marks been very obviously typographic but many consisting of unrecognizable marks and symbols which in the different contexts of the city scape could be read very differently. All of the typographical pieces I recorded create a narrative for the environment they were made.
