I have now had feedback from my tutor on the submission for this assignment and will do a separate post on our discussion later. In the meantime I have followed up his recommendation for a further artist to look at whose work is relevant to the approach that I took for this project.
Chloe Dewe Mathes produced a series of images made at the places where during the First World War soldiers were executed for cowardice (still after a century a deeply controversial subject). In each case the locations are now quite ordinary, banal even, giving little if any hint of what happened there a hundred years ago. These are photographs of landscapes as memory devices but without knowing the context a viewer would be hard put to it to know what memory has been inscribed and recorded in that specific place.
This is something that I have been exploring with my work though this is much more significant and moving set of images.
To take just one example:
The other suggestion relates to the post I wrote about landscapes as memory devices using the book Shimagatari as an example (https://markrobinsonocalandscape.photo.blog/2020/03/08/landscape-as-a-memory-device-shimagatari-book-further-thoughts-on-assignment-3/). My tutor has recommended the film The Naked Island, which is set on a small, remote Japanese island. It is available on YouTube and I now just need to find a quiet hour and a half to watch it.
Mark Robinson's OCA Landscape, Place & Environment Blog 