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 featured in the Collection's new "online exhibits space" on their website.
Gethan and I felt that it would be appropriate to produce a hyperlinked text for an online exhibit,
and this led to the idea of a series of short pieces whose texts each referred to one another.
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.
Clicking on the image below will open up the work for you.
You can also go to the collection's own website to see selected entries from the competition the collection ran alongside the commissions,
and to Gethan's site for more about what else she's up to. All these links will open in new pages.
(image from the Wellcome Collection website - click on it to explore "Wellcome's Magic Ink")
The 'Map' link will show you a family tree of the texts.
*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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