Wednesday, 3 February 2021

SpaceGirl has landed.

 



I don't know if she is an avatar, an alter ego or a ghost. She emerged in my journal around about January 2020. Just before the first lockdown. I wasn't very well. Struggling with myself and my demons. Somehow she saved me. 

She is now the vehicle for a research proposal at the University of Plymouth titled the Graphic Memoir as a Device for Healing. I have resumed my Mphil/PhD journey and it's really hard but as it happens, somewhat healing..... 


Prospectus

As I start to build the scaffold of this research it feels a little like exploring space. I have a few markers to navigate from but, actuall...