Category: Methods of Cataloguing

This week I felt I further developed my lines of enquiry. I wanted to explore how these fish can be reclassified, but needed to understand through which lens I wanted to do that. I discovered this week that These drawings were made in early 1865, on an expedition with Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology founder…

This brief was extremely challenging to begin with. Because I spent so long selecting my material (Jacques burkhardt’s illustrations of freshwater fish), I didn’t get to spend time to sit with my set and fully understand it. I was looking at reclassifying fish by their visuals rather than understanding how they were previously classified (and…