Words with Found Letters - Part Five

 

WE ARE THE MINORIES - Plaster Cubes

Use of cubes

I wanted to use the window space of the unit to create an installation of text, the plaster cubes allow for text to be created to fit the context. Originally created to comment on the 'white cube' of a gallery, having them exhibited in an old-shop-window-come-temporary gallery adds to work. Likewise, the DIY nature of the (almost) 5x5 cubes is fitting to the make do and mend situation that We Are The Minories is embracing. 

The idea is for the cubes to spell out phrases crafted for this specific context, the cubes will play on the 'we are' aspect of We Are The Minories to help linguistically link the work to the context. 

Ideas include:

• we are here
• we are still going
• we are in progress
• we are now
• we are working
• we are who we are

Previous use of cubes

These cubes have almost come full circle, having previously been exhibited, in a more ad hoc fashion within the Minories building. In this showing, no words or phrases were used.

The making of

More plaster cubes needed to be made for this installation to allow specific phrases to be spelled out. 

The Installation Plans

Phrases to be piled up to create height and visual interest. Each phrase to have its own pile. These to be spread out across the window display. 

The Making

In the Window

Words with Found Letters - Part Four

 

WE ARE THE MINORIES - hi

hi...

Plans

The idea of 'hi' came up in conversation during my first site visit. When talking of possible text to put in the windows, Firstsites' 'Hello' came up in conversation and I mentioned that I already had my own 'hi' which I had previously used.

The idea of placing the text into We Are The Minories felt fun, the work is already one that is nomadic so it was fitting for it to go on another outing and it had the added benefit of being in dialect with Firstsite.

On more practical levels it also fitted into the space provided, the front window, unlike the long side window, only had a small shelf towards the right-hand side. This is large enough to house the lettering and is also close to the entrance allowing the text to welcome in the public. 

By complete coincidence, the colouring of the lettering is also fitting to the coloured used within the signage. This further allows connections to be made between the site, context, and text.

Previous hi's

In the Window