Friday, 1 August 2025

Touch Wood - Billboards

Billboards created as part of my Touch Wood residency at Phytology/Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, 2019

Text and design selected from pages of my artist's book, 'Touch Wood' and re-interpreted and hand-painted by Michael Smythe on full-size billboard.  The billboard is repaired and re-painted each time, to be used again.






Accompanying text:

TOUCH WOOD

LOOK UP AND TURN

FACE TO SUN AND 

BALANCE ON ONE

FOOT

STAY

 

Gail is manoeuvring with the trees, plants and soil in the Nature Reserve, touching and not-touching, on one foot and two. Finding points of contact, fragility, entry and repulsion in a series of experimental movements, repetitions and devised encounters, sometimes simple, sometimes intricate and absurd.  These solitary performances become writing, slowly.  The billboard is the first extract from the book of manoeuvres.




Original page from my book with text used on billboard


First 3 photos by Michael Smythe

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