My daddy works at the shipyard ...
The Bartrams and A&P shipyards were once a major part of the attainment of Sunderland being the largest shipbuilding town (and later city) in the world, the A&P yard was world renowned for building one shop every 6 weeks, that ship was the SD14. To create work from this nessictaes the knowing of the ship, the aura of the object. Only through making, in some small part, can the awareness of the work required to build those ships be in some part appreciated. The building of a world famous ship means that ship, and each interration of it, takes on life if its own, a mystique, a reputation, and the men that built those ships as the creators of that mythos, prideful in their skills and abilities are rightfully keepers of these stories. As an initial exploration of the subject a short animations shall be made from a archival footage sources, processed to standard animation rates, treated to echo canvas sizes for future representations and manipulated to increase cont...