This month my work was a little different in feeling from previous months which took up the first half of this unit. This is first month of the second half of this unit.

I have produced some creative works, I have had my first attempt at a literature review. As I was working on this has opened up some new sources which are very interesting within the confines of my research. In addition I have tried to summarise my progress in unit so far in relation to learning outcomes.

I am currently reading the following source material

• Death, Ritual and Belief by Douglas J Davies
• A Social History of Dying by Allan Kellehear
• Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory.

In addition to these I have been looking at the following sources but in less detail than the 3 books above.

• Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann
• Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research by Paula Reavey
• Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Plants by Charlkes Skinner

Creative works. As I was laid low with Covid and have not been out of house much I adapted my process to construct some work on the computer using my own photographs and some found images of gravestones and altering these. I was interested in expanding on my previous creative works and to explore some of my ideas using both known burials where the gravestone is clearly marked and also unknown burials where gravestone has decayed and I do not know who lies there. The ideas of memorial stones being cared for or forgetten and left to decay has a strong link to human memory. I have introduced text and layered known images and unknown images of people into my constructed images and have attempted to age and weather known gravestones to imagine them as forgotten. I have also been experimenting with using the symbolism