I have set up my hugely generous husbands X-mass gift to me. and now I have to prove my worthiness. I resolve to work hard and not be completely sidetracked by housework and life in general. I also resolve not to be overwhelmed what would be the point in that!!

I will warn all my family and friends what a selfish person I'm going to become.......I'm not going to lose my rag at the kids for being messy little creatures either. I will work at Marchants and revel in the day I can spend there doing blissful and straightforward work.

Giant slide for Greenwich Park going all the way from the top of one tree hill and caressing hillside whilst the hapless slider comes careering down it! it would give you the feeling of being joyfully out of control that I'm sure is good for the soul.

I plugged my kids into electronic mummy's and escaped into my studio blasted 'Kings of Leon' I tried to feel it. I know it's not sophisticated but it gets me going..... what does that say about me. unpretentious, or just a bit thick?

More of the same.....ohhh dear.

I really hope I'm not stuck with these.....I hope eventually I get that stunning idea I've been waiting for!

very odd thing to do to try to put some sort of arbitrary number on creativity? but since we all love comparisons here goes.

greenwich park tree cover animation

"They return to the people the green that the city stole from them." Roberto Burle Marx

another attempt at the sublime, and pretty far from the mark .

composition

Faringdons sketch design for front garden

Faringdons sketch design for front garden

Faringdons sketch design for front garden

Faringdons sketch design for front garden

spent the last two days in bed can't remember the last time I've felt so awful and all my brood has been sick too even the old cat....not sure I'm going to be able to put up my best work Monday. really feel free reign is hard to design around.

This Image for me is a bit too garish and busy but I like its surreal Quality so it stayed.

I think this Image is my favourite. I scribbled all over a printed out version of my model and then scanned it into photo shop. the most time consuming thing was finding a landscape that would fit.

We made five minute model's using cartridge paper and a piece of tape. we had to represent the word Perforated.
we then explored texture and human scale. with collage/montage of photo's of our models.

I thought I was more successful exploring texture but could have been more creative as far as human scale how about someone ab sailing out of that rude looking pointed thing?

My design for Tiananmen Square as posted on Tom Turners' blog.

First entries for Tiananmen Square Landscape Architecture Competition

by Tom Turner @ 7:04 am October 9, 2009 -- Filed under: Asian gardens and landscapes, Urban Design, context-sensitive design, public art

Witney Hedges entry for the Tiananmen Square competition would be invisible by day and spectacular as dusk turns to dark

The landscape architecture compeition for Tiananmen Square was announced in March 2009 and, seven months later, we are pleased to see the first entries coming in. There are still eight months to go (till June 2010) and we hope for many more. All the competition entries can be seen on Flickr, because it is a Web 2.0 design competition. A Chinese commentator has said, in effect, ‘leave Tiananmen Square as it is: it is a ‘holy place’ belonging to the PRC and foreigners should leave it alone’. I can understand this attitude! - but the conclusion that ‘nothing should ever change’ does not follow and two of the early entries. from Witney Hedges and Henrychung, go for a ’sensitive intervention’ approach which leaves the use and spatial character of the Square very much as they are today. Other entries, perhaps inspired by the famous Chinese architect Ma Yansong, go for a radical greening of the space. My own view is that all options should be considered and that they should be discussed both within China and outside China. Civilization, to which China has made an inestimable contribution, belongs to the whole world, not to a group of people who occupy a small geographical zone for a short period in time: they have the right and the power to decide but they can and should welcome debate.