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A Participant Observer A participant observer was what Hamish Henderson called
pencil on paper, 2008, A2 himself in his approach to fieldwork.
screenprint, 2011, 54 x 76cm, edition of 10 In geological terms the form shown is an
alluvial fan – a depositional feature formed at one end of
Printed by Paul Liam Harrison, Visual Research Centre, an erosional-depositional system in which sediment is
Dundee transferred, from one part of a watershed to another: that
constitutes the metaphor.
© ‘Original image courtesy of British Geological Survey’
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