Another element of research finds its beginnings in the make-up of Leeds’ new city museum that opened in 2008. Upon making friends with an assistant who worked there I managed to locate and attain a number of wooden panels that had some sort of use or pre-function: some sort of history that is unknown to me.
The strange thing is that they have perfect circular holes cut in them, the same point on each one.
I have begun to construct some sort of language with these boards: but they need a place to temporarily re-establish themselves….
Masking tape seems to be playing a part again, as some of them hang in my studio, left for days a then a little more is teased out of them
I’ve had them since April 2009: I wonder where they will end up.
The above text was written some time ago, and since I have returned to Leeds and the site (from its exterior). I began to make something of photographing elements of the architecture with the hope of correlating what I framed with my camera, with the found material that is the boards. What struck me were the signifying holes in the middle and how such signification can be translated and used as a way of relating the two types of imagery…
This will hopefully develop in to some kind of object-based installation.
