WORDSCAPE
2007
Text on transparent film, cardboard, thread
180 x 200 x 130 cm
"Time does not change us.
It only unfolds us."
Max Frisch, diary 1946 - 1949
Wordscape was commissioned for Wakefield Art Gallery's topographical collection due to its imminent move to The Hepworth Wakefield and is now part of their collections. It is a piece about Wakefield's landscape, architecture and history of social change.
Strings connect a horizontal curved card-board pedestal - inspired by the edge of a book and the bend of the River Calder - with four vertical threaded rods representing different aspects of time: Past, Present, Future and a Future yet to be written. The four rods join at the top to a unity, with proportions modelled on those of Wakefield cathedral spire.
Impressions into the card-board pedestal and in-built coloured bars represent buildings on Wakefield's waterfront, including the new Hepworth Wakefield. Suspended on the threads are texts and images from local people, recalling their memories, views and visions about the city.
Text on transparent film, cardboard, thread
180 x 200 x 130 cm
"Time does not change us.
It only unfolds us."
Max Frisch, diary 1946 - 1949
Wordscape was commissioned for Wakefield Art Gallery's topographical collection due to its imminent move to The Hepworth Wakefield and is now part of their collections. It is a piece about Wakefield's landscape, architecture and history of social change.
Strings connect a horizontal curved card-board pedestal - inspired by the edge of a book and the bend of the River Calder - with four vertical threaded rods representing different aspects of time: Past, Present, Future and a Future yet to be written. The four rods join at the top to a unity, with proportions modelled on those of Wakefield cathedral spire.
Impressions into the card-board pedestal and in-built coloured bars represent buildings on Wakefield's waterfront, including the new Hepworth Wakefield. Suspended on the threads are texts and images from local people, recalling their memories, views and visions about the city.
