Help from Jane.

>Your study needs to be outward looking.
>You need to consider the methods you are using and their pros and cons.
>You need to see your research in the context of the history of ideas and other research on this topic in the past and today.
>You need to research your subject, not just write about what you know already and what you think, and throw in random bits of information
>You need to find out what other people have said and find ways to analyse, measure, evaluate this in conjunction with your own findings
>What you think and feel is important but for this assignment only as part of a body of information about your chosen subject.

You must demonstrate that you have researched your subject, by including references, citations, examples etc from primary and or secondary sources. Visual research is important too, and if this is an element of your work (it should be for most IA students) then you should provide examples/evidence of this.

Your own walk/walks could be part of your research(and I think they should be), but we need to look at how you do this. This is an interesting problem, because I think, from what I have seen, your work does not sit comfortably inside the boundaries of visual art practice, nor writing, nor performance and certainly not theory, but skirts around the edges of all these. I would be interested in discussing this with you once we have completed the study. There are many artists in this situation and indeed I find myself there at times-you are in good company you see! But you are not going to resolve the problems of your position solely through the study.

I am now going to catch a bus and spend a lot of time in the library reading Wanderlust and making notes.