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Dudley Time Portal

Road - kerb bricks - 210730 1515 Tiny Things 2.png
Road - kerb bricks
Added to Archive Wednesday 3 November 2021
Experienced Friday 30 July 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 25 November 2025
Season Summer
Type Text Drawing
Weather Pouring Rainy
Themes Tiny Things Material Pattern
What was/is/if What is

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More-than-humanising data through sonification Sound artist Bill Laybourne invited Dudley time rebels to create a collective score inspired by street detectorist findings through noise making.
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My gift focused on the issue that I found most prevalent in my research, which was the lack of nightlife and social entertainment on Dudley High Street. I created an abstract storyboard that highlights the gap on the High Street. This model can be packed away and used at different events. It can also be used as a puppet show. People can add their own contributions to the High Street. The storyboard was made out of recycled materials. This puts emphasis on looking after our environment. - 1_w3lK5el8DC8i3SnDFOb-qg.png
Men standing on grass - connecting with extra space on High Street - relaxing / watching the traffic - 210731 1330 Connection.png
A random yellow (!) traffic cone on the pavement - 211110 1730 Funny.png
New T-shirt - 210730 1600 New.jpg
Bank - good principal focus for view down - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
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The top edge on the Duncan Edwards Memorial statue in the market square. What you're looking at is fossilised sea life of a good million + years ago. - IMG_7264.jpeg
Small graffiti - 211110 1735 Tiny Things 3.png
The themes I investigated were the Connections, Movement, Routes and Ways. My gift explores those themes through a figurative expression hidden within the structure of the dreamcatcher, allowing for a flexible interpretation by the audience, and to aid the imagination. The structure of the dreamcatcher symbolizes the relationship between the destination and the journey the user undertakes, but while it highlights the importance of the destination, placing it in the centre as the biggest piece, it emphasizes the significance of the journey over the destination in the ratio of one big element vs many small elements. This can be relevant to the High Street, if the connections are thought of beyond the transport means, and can relate to anything from the layout of the landscape of the High Street, to the interactions between the users. The web symbolizes the connections between the pieces, plotting the blue foam pieces around the different lengths of the thread, off the centre where the destination piece is plotted. This is meant to show how the connections can be made in various ways and that there is no set order or pattern, meaning that the movement is individual and the connections are adaptable. The blue foam pieces can be viewed as points or highlights of the journey, or they can represent different ways of getting to, and from the centre, suggesting that the journey doesn’t end with the destination. Another way in which the web can be interpreted is that the small foam pieces are the destinations, the thread is the connection between them and the big piece symbolizes the decision making. - 0_kW-5L8zNDic2CWkq.jpeg
Paving stones - 210731 1330 Connection 1.png
This gift was created to highlight different points in the social spaces on the high street. Aspects that we can improve on and celebrate. One point found was to incorporate more green spaces to improve health and wellbeing. The other to celebrate the textures and embossings in Dudley’s early ironworking. These ornaments were created by melting sweets and printing patterns onto them. - 0_bLySD-pGcd7BOWUv.png
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Peeling paint on beautiful old windows - 210731 1050.jpg
Cast iron railings good survival - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Rotten wooden wall - 210731 1030 Decay 3.png
Cast iron railings lost on south side - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Grime streaked windows - 210731 1050.jpg