The Ship’s Journal will show a process, starting with entries initially with ignorance of local culture, then it’s discovery, charting/planning and experiencing.
The ignorance stage may come to reference, though at the moment it doesn’t, Yorkshire stereotypes and technology-based ignorance. Mappae mundi and Terra Australis Incognita probably also referenced.
The discovery, charting and planning stage draws on Captain James Cook, maritime and to some degree Enlightenment and Romanticist views – still sussing out what the latter two are about.
The experiencing stage draws on Pacific tribal imagery. I’m reading Robert Steven Fischer’s History of the Pacific Islands to get a brief understanding, mostly to get key words I can investigate via the internet – e.g. a ritual marking the embarking of some legendary figure or summat.
All will become apparent as I post pics of work…
YOU COULD SOLVE THAT WITH A BISCUIT DUNKING MACHINE 