Hiding Theme

Here's some stuff in a locked yard (that just happened to be open) down Wolverhampton Street. There are what look like two chapels in there.

Photo Access Architecture Boundaries Broken Care Chance Craft Curiosity Decay Exposed Hiding Material Old Overlooked Opportunity Ownership Past Shelter Unfamiliar Weathered

Motif / sign above G.P. Footwear not seen before

Text Pouring Rainy Tiny Things High Surprise Unfamiliar Curiosity Architecture Hiding

[What do you notice if you imagine you are a worm / a bird / somebody else?] weed under bench, rusting lamppost, vehicles, business

Text Cold Foggy Views Nature Growing Plantlife Decay Vehicle Hiding Shelter Weathered

This graffiti image is on the wall at ACCN- Dudley African Caribbean Network, I would like to know how and when this was created. One Love is a reference to a Bob Marley song and is written in the image.

Photo Sunny Boundaries Creativity Culture Emotion Expression Hiding Happiness Identity Life Memory People Play Stories Words

Timeline of Dudley’s History with information on historic buildings and geological features of the High Street. Dudley has a rich history by being know as a busy market town and being a capital for manufacturing. The timeline emphasises the rapid change of the traditional industries in Dudley and how it has effected the High Street.

Drawing Text Diagram Past Hiding Material Commerce Economics Architecture Words Water Transport Making Industry Vehicle Colour Pollution Fairness Light Growing Nature

Things we wish we could tell you

Text Drawing Chilled Evening Hiding Imagination Future Stories Potential

Abundance of flowers welcoming everyone a "great night"!

Text Drawing Chilled Evening Hiding Abundance Nature Plantlife Invitations Friendliness

It’s difficult to see green from plants although then noticed the weeds in the pavement and buildings

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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.

Photo Aesthetic Archaeology Beauty Change Craft Creatures Exposed Hiding Layer Life Material Nature Past Pattern Surprise Texture Tiny Things Old

(*imagining*) two Christmas spirited robins joining in with the festivities of the street, singing along with your Christmas joys.

Text Drawing Chilled Evening Hiding Imagination Future Happiness Interacting Friendliness Sounds Joy Stories Creatures Light Emotion Potential

friendly surveillance of spiders in the top right corner of the lab - be nice!

Text Drawing Chilled Evening Hiding Interacting Friendliness Stories Kindness Nature Creatures

After investigating the history, heritage, culture and institutions of Dudley and its High street, I made a kaleidoscope gift based around the themes ‘overlooked’, ‘resilience’ and ‘layered’. Although sight is the most immediate sense in which many people engage with their surroundings, it’s not until you look beneath the surface and start to see things from a new perspective that you fully appreciate what is there and the potential beyond. I wanted people to engage with my gift, have fun and evoke a sense of nostalgia, whilst also using it as a way to look forward to what the High Street could be, all the while embodying the CoLab Dudley principle of allowing this object to be a co-op piece. The gift relates to the people and allows for each user to interpret and express their own thoughts.

Other visual delight Model Past Culture Gift People Hiding Play Memory Familiar Potential Future Community Expression Overlooked Resilient Layer