Ghost Notes

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When I go to museums or talks, even if I’m not actively draw­ing, I like to take sketch notes. It’s a habit I got into while study­ing for an art MA five years ago, where we were required to keep a visu­al diary of talks and exhib­i­tions we atten­ded. (You can see that diary here). Earli­er in the summer I went on a ghost tour of Cambridge via work, and I took these notes. (You can read more about haunted Cambridge here too). If I’m in a situ­ation where I’m walk­ing around or moving a lot, I block out the text and images in non-photo blue pencil, and then do the inking later when I have a desk. If I’m sat down, then I do them straight in pen- usually a 0.7mm bullet Posca mark­er. I’ve scanned a few pages today from my current sketch­book, and I’ll post them gradu­ally, inter­spersed among other things.

A few notes about this page:

  • Cambridge is essen­tially on a drained swamp, surroun­ded by a lot of water, and on completely flat ground right to the North Sea. This means lots of swirl­ing fog and mist in the winter. Ideal for ghosts and haunt­ing.
  • The Night Climbers are appar­ently a real club of students who scale build­ings. Or maybe they’re ghosts.
  • Cambridge was very badly affected by the Black Death. This means a lot of plague pits and mass graves. Again, ideal for haunt­ing.
  • I didn’t go in the Haunted Book­shop, because it wasn’t open very often. I did however go in the “haunted” café next door, and noth­ing spooky happened, apart from a bray­ing young man with a super­nat­ur­ally irrit­at­ing voice yelling at the table next to us.
  • The Ever­last­ing Club is a local ghost story about a secret club with yearly meet­ings.
  • Charles H. Fisk (I wrote his name wrong) is an Amer­ic­an study abroad ghost.
  • “Stone Tapes” is a refer­ence to this famous ghost story, and its idea that ghosts could be a phys­ic­al record­ing of dramat­ic and emotion­al moments in the past.
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