Myself* and Gethan Dick were commissioned to produce an online work for London's Wellcome Collection.
Along with a number of other commissioned artists and design competition entrants we were asked to respond to a "Word Soup" of 200 words,
chosen by the Collection, that were each thought to be in some way pertinent to their aims and background.
The piece was to be featured in the Collection's new "online exhibits space" on their website.
Gethan and I felt that it would be appropriate to produced a hyperlinked text for an online exhibit,
and this led to the idea of producing a series of short pieces which responded to each other.
We took Henry Wellcome's first piece of product-promotional literature, for Wellcome's Magic Ink - which appears below -
as the starting point for the whole project, and used the Word Soup words as mutating or influencing devices in the creation of each of the subsequent texts.
What we ended up with was variously funny, sad, dark and weird.
Click on the image to see the project on the Wellcome Collection website.
You can also find links there to other commissioned and competition-winning work for the Collection.
(image from the Wellcome Collection website)
*I am Wes White and this is my website. Thanks for stopping by, please click here to have a look around the rest of it, if you aren't already.
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