© Sid White-Jones - Workshop outcome completed by Liz.
Found photographs have always been hugely exciting to me for their unknown origins. As they have no identifiable authors, a viewer is forced to invent ones for themselves. I had often thought that this would make an exciting concept for a workshop and thanks to Babylon ARTS in Ely, I was recently given the opportunity to turn it into one.
I recently delivered a session at Prickwillow ArtSpace on imagined narratives to the members of this year’s Babylon Young Curators and Associates programme.
© Sid White-Jones - Workshop outcome completed by Peggy.
© Sid White-Jones - Workshop outcome completed by Babylon Young Associate.
The group began by combing through a selection of found photographs before selecting particular images that best held their interest. With guidance from a series of questions and prompts, each member then individually studied their chosen photographs, describing what they saw and elaborating on the scenes depicted. These newly created narratives were then be used to form a final text-based work of their choice, where different materials, sizes, scripts, symbols, and styles were considered.
The pictures above show just some of the selected photographs and the fictional language-based works they inspired, which took the form of letters, scripts, postcards, inventories, cryptolects, and asemic writings.
For more info on Babylon ARTS and their Young Curators and Associates programme visit -
IG: @babylonarts
Special Thanks -
To Liz Falconbridge for approaching me to deliver this workshop.