Chesil beach: a different sortal sense VIDEO http://youtu.be/F5mcZoqFjKE

“Different parts of the ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many others that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the ocean of the streams of story was in fact the biggest library in the universe.  And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to beome new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the ocean of story was much more than a store room of yarns.  It was not dead but alive”

(Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 1990)

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Day 2
a collaboration between Elaine Fisher and William Lindley
MEANTIME Project Space: Lower High Street Archive Project

‘drawn’ historic gateways merge with ‘built’ surfaces and ‘imagined’ apertures in a moment of suspended change on the lower high street

Day 1
a collaboration between Elaine Fisher and William Lindley
MEANTIME Project Space: Lower High Street Archive Project

This is the first time that both artists have undertaken a collaborative project. The project aims to bring together visual references ‘drawn’ from the historic buildings that once stood on the lower high street with physical forms of the soon to be lost Modernist building. Taking as its focus the lower high street as ‘market place’, originally accessed via ornate archways and currently finding shelter beneath a concrete projection, the project highlights the ‘opening up’ of the ‘market place’ in Phase II of the Brewery development and what impact that might have on a sense of place.