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Wordscape
WORDSCAPE was commissioned for Wakefield Art Gallery's topographical collection due to its imminent move to The Hepworth Wakefield and will be part of the collections there.
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 in the River Calder - with four vertical threaded rods representing different aspects of time: past, present, future and an unwritten future. 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 words and images from local people, giving their memories, views and visions about the city.
A film by Jo Millett documents the process of making Wordscape. And a printed version of a talk “WAKEFIELD’S WORDSCAPE” given on 5th December 2007 at Wakefield Art Gallery can be seen here.
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 in the River Calder - with four vertical threaded rods representing different aspects of time: past, present, future and an unwritten future. 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 words and images from local people, giving their memories, views and visions about the city.
A film by Jo Millett documents the process of making Wordscape. And a printed version of a talk “WAKEFIELD’S WORDSCAPE” given on 5th December 2007 at Wakefield Art Gallery can be seen here.