The drafting process.

{Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, 2014, collage for The World of Interiors}

Before one gets to the final edit, many drafts are done, and ideas flexed. In order to get to the above collage for Journal of a Literary Tour Guide in the October issue of The World of Interiors, we traversed the landscape below. Maps and Morris, "a suburban Tesco on the Old Kent Road", all details sourced and shoehorned in as we sought to depict a little of TS Eliot's "agony in stony places" alongside a barefoot pilgrimage. Plucked from paintings (chiefly held in the collection of the Louvre) and national costume books, you will find Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Study of Dante, for Dante's Dream, 1871; the architectural drawing of a well covering for Red House, 1859; an open copy of The Waste Land from 1922; The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer designed by W. Morris at The Doves Bindery, 1897; and a pilgrim on horseback from The Canterbury Tales.

(Incidentally, this post was drafted whilst taking a break from a written piece that has been proving an exercise in knot tying. Have since scrapped said draft, proclaimed so on Twitter, posted of tender process on Instagram, and taken brief leave of the piece, I will return to the task with new eyes soon. Just giving it time to come to its senses, and for the sentences to form proper lines. The drafting process is sometimes a slow one. Do with this background colour what you will.)














{The October issue of The World of Interiors features a collaborative collage of ours with loose reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, TS Eliot's The Waste Land, and Henry II's pilgrimage of penitence in 1174, created to accompany a written piece by Henry Eliot about his literary walking tours, and these here are several of our working drafts. Here's to process!}

Drafts. A beautiful and necessary part of the process I.
Drafts. A beautiful and necessary part of the process II.
Drafts. A beautiful and necessary part of the process III.

What's that you said about process?
+ The January Sea
+ "A ziggurat of balls of porcelain clay to my left..."
+ From idea to publication (I)
+ From idea to publication (II)