I have been consorting with the idea of how labels for a work can also be works in themselves: and how such works get to forward and re-locate an idea past its presented state – a visual definition is aided by a textual pre-disposition. What I am interested in doing is turning this on its head and playing within the paradigm of text as a visual area to express fictions from actuality. The labels go back to the source of how a work is made – but does the source have to be reflected in the title, or is the title in this respect the end result rather than a beginning?
Four films have been made from a direct resource: The Henry Moore Institute (HMI) acted as a resource and the architecture it inhabits lends itself to its very function as a research institute as well as a publicly-accessible space. I took to finding and bringing visual communicated, by-way-of recording spaces, pockets of the building that are essential for its academic as well as every-day running. These was an investigative process and the end result may indeed be the labels that I here present with this particular post in this particular blog. The text in the labels goes beyond – to make congruence between the environments through text and explanation.
The labels are then taken further as they are re-interpreted as physical grounds on which new drawings and trajectories are made. Upon one of the labels, which acts as a form of telling how the rendered films and other labels returned to the original site (74, LS1 3AH – which refers only to the address as a building, not an actual named institution – there is a certain anonymity about this).
