The Postal Project, 7 Garden Street, P A N D E M I C !, Sheffield, 11th - 12th November, 2011

more photos here.

p.s. here's to letter writing!

 You may have seen the Letter Writing Project (p.s. here's to letter writing!) at the MACC/LEEDS Trans-Pennine Art Expedition, the Home from Home exhibition (both in Leeds), and at nearly all of the Postal Project tour stops. Better still you sat down and wrote a letter! Thank you to everyone who did, lots of lovely letters, some soppy ones, some sad ones, some funny ones and some just bizarre. I have now sewn all the letters together into a hand-bound book, which will probably make an appearance somewhere...sometime...potentially in a location near you...until then feast your eyes on this. Also, look out for p.s. here's to letter writing vol.2!

p.(p.?)s. those of you who left an address I will try and send you something good in the post asap.

for the passenger

I was asked, along with some others, by artist Su Hurrell to create a map describing my journey to MMU in Manchester. The only constraint was that it had to be approximately postcard-sized. The text is from The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell, 1937 (175). This used to describe how I felt about the train journey as I would get travel sick every time I tried to do anything on the train to pass the time, now I've managed to get over this travel sickness and spend each journey reading which seems like such a better use of time that otherwise felt almost entirely wasted.

 

Further information from Su: 'I asked people for maps to demonstrate that people understand a map to contain certain elements, i.e. starting/ending destination, orientation, descriptive symbolism. My research question for the Contexts is about the absurdity of mapping complexity and I wanted to see what preconceptions participants brought to the exercise - what conventions they understood. Your contribution was the most 'left field' of them (in a good way) and yet contained starting/end destination, and a linear journey of sorts with the line of poetry, left/right conventions of writing to journey.'