I have a new job. It's a great project
working with Commission Projects http://www.commissionprojects.co.uk/
on a new housing development for Essex County Council on the site of the former Essex County Council
Libraries Headquarters and storage facility in Chelmsford. The site has an intriguing history which I am
just starting to uncover. My first foray into the archives has thrown up a link
to a Mercury Press on the site around 1930-40 which has provided a strand of
research. It was also a space of 'knowledge storage' for all you psycho
geography people out there. Books ordered in, held there before being disseminated
within Essex library service. This flow of stories is another strand, thinking
about words and how we use them. Finally walking around the site, the work is
beginning and seeing the buildings rising from the ground one connects to the
making process. The plans have mirrored formats within the design and the
process of building involves moulds so an inside and outside or negative and
positive. I'm interested in how this relates to the idea of the puzzle and how
good public art makes you think but you can also ignore it until one day you
engage. The work begins here......
