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Two
Destination
Language
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Dusty Feet is an exhibition.
About making marks.
Marks which communicate.
Signs. Letters. Words.
Dusty Feet is a collection of objects.
Things which speak.
Which communicate.
Fromyesterday and today.
Dusty Feet is a chance to think.
To reflect on howwe make meaning.
To leave your own mark.
To see the marks others leave.
Dusty Feet is what happens
When the flour gets on your shoes.
When your baking is interrupted.
When you leave marks just by moving.
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Signs communicate.
What they communicate is doubtful.
Theres a meaning to the words we select, to the typefaces we
choose, to the colours of an ink or a paint, to the choice of what we
write on, to the context in which we offer it.
Theres no guarantee of safe passage for meaning. It is altered in
the journey between the maker of an object or mark, and the
interpreter.
Nothing new in this. Laurence Sterne knew it when he drew
pictures of Tristram Shandys plot lines in 1759 (take a look while
youre in the library).
Rather than an essay or explanations of what brings the objects in
Dusty Feet together, wed like to offer you something more flexible,
to encourage your own journey. Wed like you to make your own
meanings, your own links, your own conclusions.
And your own marks. Make those. On the blackboards, the door,
the yellow cards. What youre thinking, what interests you, what
excites you and what might worry you, in whatever form you
wish. Leave marks behind.
Alister and Katherina
Curators
Back in 1543, the bakers of Marlborough marked their bread so
that complaints could be laid at the correct door. The logos were
used to seeing on food packaging have a long heritage. A mark of
quality, of provenance, of ownership. Laying claim.
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Wiltshire is filled with beautiful place names, their meanings lost
in everyday use. Were so used to things coming across the globe to
feed our consumerism that a village brick works, and the careful
packaging of a sample brick evoke a distant world.
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Wiltshires archives are filled with extraordinary documents from
people of all sorts of backgrounds. There are glimpses into the lives
of sailors, designers, religious folk and their detractors all
beautifully cared for, boxed, waiting to be discovered.
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Envelopes cost more than the letters that go in them. The cutting,
the folding, the glue: it all adds up. Keeping stuff cataloguing it,
containing it, storing it, accessing it all adds up too, even
memories.
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The henge is emblematic of Wiltshire, of rural England, of
prehistory. A beautiful monument to a communitys gargantuan
effort, to what end? We wonder if its popularity is despite or
because of its unrecoverable meaning.
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The rules of a place tell us of its people: what needs to be
encouraged, limited or forbidden between them. Theres a shared
language in the signs set down in the Highway Code, and another
in the structure of the environment around us.
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We took the time to sit and sew. Drinking tea, dunking biscuits.
Following the outlines of the letters we had planned out hours and
days before. Choosing the stitch, the silk, the needle. Speaking
with new friends, or sitting alone in bed, soothing our minds with
this addictive task.
Embroidery has a history: in the Bayeux Tapestry (which, since its
not woven on a loom but sewn onto cloth, is embroidered), in
ceremonial banners, in the craft skills of the past. Its a craft for
nimble fingers and bright imagination.
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MAKE YOUR MARK HERE
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Bread stamp designers:
Alex, Charlotte Crome, Daniel Crome, Harvey Robson Jones,
Isabella Bray Ortiz, Joseph Stevenson, Katherina Radeva, Lyla,
Maddie Vernon, Mia Thomas, Mick Stevenson, Sophie Crome
Handkerchief embroidery (in order received):
Alister Lownie, Katherina Radeva, Gillian Molloy, Alyson Lownie,
Jane Woodhouse, Valerie Wallis, Pat Carthy, Glenda Scott, Carole
Pykett, Helen Crome, Rebecca Woodley, Chrystabel Lambert,
Jeannie MacMeckin, Marion Constance, Kathryn Preston, Irene
Bulson, Roger Frost, Rashmi Makam, Joan Abbott, Suzie
Gutteridge, Anonymous, Jasmine Nokes, Cerys Speight
Rule signs designed by members of Bradford on Avon Youth Club
We are grateful for loans from:
English Heritage
Market Lavington Museum
Wadworth Brewery
Wiltshire Museum, Devizes
Thanks to:
Peter
Philip
Chris
Other Chris
Other Peter
Roger
Lisa
David
Tim
Jon
Jeanette
Dimo & Rosi
Basil
Meril
Faye
Jane
Claire
Sarah
Beth
and all Salisburys library staff
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Curation, exhibition design, brochure design and project management by
Two Destination Language.
Two Destination Language is Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie.
www.twodestinationlanguage.com