Fragments, 2015, table, mints, food dye, labels, tablet with video, folder of fabricated correspondence, fabricated didactic, and invitation to touch, exhibited at QCA Rivers Studios for Sculpture 15

This project was a collaboration between an American writer and the artist. The artist asked the writer to select several ‘powerful’ phrases or words from her writing, and the artist’s role was then to create visual responses to each phrase, relying on her emotional and aesthetic instinct. Consequently, each object has a corresponding phrase, which viewers were invited to match with the object they felt best embodied it. The table of objects and labels was displays alongside a dossier of the artist and writer’s correspondence, and a video of one of their skype conversations.

The collaboration was fabricated, no correspondence had been entered into, and the phrases were selected from the writer’s (who is in fact a scientist) freely available thesis on the interpretation of taste based on cultural background. The objects, purporting to be expressive, emotional, sculptural responses to the phrases, were melted mints with food dye added and were not created in relation to specific phrases. The project continued the artist’s ongoing investigation into how we assign emotional meaning to objects and decontextualised language.