Post Box - A parcel’s journey from London to Barra

10th July 2013

Tim Knowles
A parcel’s journey from London E3 5QZ to Barra HS9 5XW.

A specially constructed parcel recorded its 902-mile journey through the postal system from London to the Isle of Barra, in a sequence of 20,000 images, a continuous audio recording and a GPS track. The piece captures a wonderful array of random, abstract images, post office interiors, sorting facilities, people at work, the processing of mail and the many different modes of transport used during its journey; revealing the unseen world of Royal Mail’s postal system. Click here for a preview - http://www.e3-hs9.com/

The exhibition Post Box is shown in conjunction with Sock Sampler, a trans-Atlantic knitting project. Timespan’s Knitting Group have sent parcels with hand-made single socks to Winnipeg this year in commemoration of the 1813 Kildonan Clearances and have received the paired socks back. This project has been inspired by a letter shipped from Scotland to the Red River settlement in 1815 with the second group of settlers from the Strath of Kildonan.

“...we sent five yards and a quarter between yourself and your sister with Alexander Matheson, Ouldbreachy of Pladain, and your name in the end of it, and we sent two gray yarns for stockings and black ones for the same and a little of black and white sewing thread...” from a letter by William Macpherson to John and Catherine Macpherson, dated 7th July 1815, Gailiable, Kildonan.

Preview and Talk
Sat 20 July 2013 | 6pm | Timespan
Refreshments provided | All welcome

http://www.timknowles.com

Exhibition 20 July - 6 October 2013