Working on the background research for Goldlay Sq in
Chelmsford. Continuing the idea of information and communication whilst making
connections with the history of the site. This has taken two more paths. In the process
of the space becoming a place it was the site of an allotment. I have been
thinking about the material contained within plant matter. Looking at cell
structures and the process of growth. Words such as storage, connections, food
and seed are spinning around my head. This is a fairly underlying concept and
is at the root of the idea of existence and evolution - this has taken me into the world of
Ernst Haeckel. Information and embedded knowledge has thrown up numbers,
patterns and sacred geometry. On the other hand the library storage facility
and the idea of book have resurfaced. I started to build and draw book
structures whilst thinking about the question - What does information look like?
The book as an image standing in for knowledge, a container of information, documented and disseminating. To disseminate is to "spread abroad as though sowing seed.
The two ideas mesh and point to fundamentals - the building blocks of the
material around us.
