I chose rope as a starting metaphor for Fear as emotion is not linear and is a combination of stimulating experiences, I then looked at rope-making and in-turn factory work and explored the old facilities in East London.

This project maps out traumatic historical events that occurred or are linked to the East London docks, specifically Silvertown, the West India & Royal Victoria Docks. This includes: the Mills & Brunner Mond being bombed in WWII, West India Docks & poor working conditions, and the Atlantic Slave Trade where crops harvested by slaves where transported from the Caribbean to these docks.

There was a relationship of pain stretching across the world from the Caribbean to the docks in England: the Sugar Cane that was farmed by slaves in the Caribbean would cut and bruise their hands, while workers at West India Docks would have to transport
the imported sugar cane as it also cut and damaged their hands. The Sugar Cane is a vessel for the transfer of horror.

These slavery impact maps are a culmination of my research of the links and transfers of these horrors reaching out from the docks across to different parts of the world.