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Hi I'm Eve, I'm doing Archaeology, em Archaeology Anthropology at UCL and I'm approaching my second year in London.
I'm Vanessa and I'm studying Fine Art in Goldsmiths and this is my first year in London.
When I met Van for the first time at the cafe I thought that we were very similar, it was like quite surprising, cos we are doing very different courses, but em...
She actually quoted quite a lot of the readings that I do in my class and she's done them out of interest so em that was one of my first things, like this might be quite interesting.
When I first met Eve I was like arch... Archaeology! Because I did a lot of readings on Archaeology and a lot of the concepts are what I find to be very interesting even though I study art.
Like I think her subject is more interesting. I think we should be studying each other's subjects, that's what we figured out. Or a combination of it.
Em when we... I guess we're kinda thinking of like two kinda concepts to explore. So...
The first one was the idea of fragments. So because like being from an Archaeology background, em I guess the idea of when you look at something, it actually has a really long history behind it.
Em and...it like conjures all these relations that you thought about when you look at an object. It is not just presented as a whole.
The other idea that we thought about exploring em was... souvenirs. Like to use souvenirs. Yea.
Yea and like the concept of a souvenir is something that transcends time and space. When em you go to different places and you pick up things and then...
When you bring that away from the original context then it kind of has its own life.
It would probably be objects and maybe things that you can really take away from the gallery itself, and maybe, probably fragments as well? Yea.
Em like the idea of a souvenir not just like as an icon but also the concept of a souvenir, that like you project your memories onto it and then it becomes more than just an object. Yea.
...because I feel like I'm talking to myself. It's like we are very, very similar in terms of out interests. Extremely similar. Yea.
I guess like the only difference that we can have would be the way that we approach the project, so... em...
Like Van being from a Fine Arts background, she has a lot of like, ideas I guess? Thinking more like macro pictures and then she's...
She has a lot, like makes a lot of connections to all the different concepts that we have whereas like I...
Whereas Eve is more, more... like she approaches them more from the objects, like the object's kind of em point of view, with an audience. yea, yea.
So we'll be like discussing an idea and we've all these really fun, interesting elements, but I'll be like yea but how to we like tie them down and just like yea I guess it's a difference between us.
I think it's quite... it's a very interesting experience cos usually in your art context, you always talk to other people who are in art...
And they have a very specific kind of view in response to what you do, but when you're talking to someone else from a different field the response is completely different...
which is very refreshing, I find.