To read the full version of my written response, go here. Note that you’ll need to use your UAL account to view the file.

The following are my further thoughts that couldn’t fit into my written response, would be nice to read before reading the file linked above but it is not necessary to engage with it; I just don’t want to leave this post too blank!

After investigating the Burdett-Coutts Sundial Memorial, I reflected on my methods and approaches. In short, I feel like unearthing these stories behind the names carved on the memorial is part of the memorial’s function too; as a structure to remember these people by. I had chosen to do a series of posters and a publication to serve as an extension of this memorial, keeping the memories alive by making these stories and these people accessible to the public.

However, I found that these stories came alive the most during my interviews. Speaking about these people’s lives, speculating how they would look like and by extension, how they lived their lives, had given them a chance to come alive once more after 200 years of their deaths. Perhaps I should have taken a different route, engaging with more people with these stories and inviting them to draw their own versions of the leading roles of these stories. But for now, I remain with my original choice of making a publication as an extension of the memorial.