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Dusty Feet is an exhibition.

About making marks.

Marks which communicate.

Signs. Letters. Words.

Dusty Feet is a collection of objects.

Things which speak.

Which communicate.

From yesterday and today.

Dusty Feet is a chance to think.

To reflect on how we make meaning.

To leave your own mark.

To see the marks others leave.

Dusty Feet is what happens

When the flour gets on your shoes.

When your baking is interrupted.

When you leave marks just by moving.

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Signs communicate.

What they communicate is doubtful.

There’s a meaning to the words we select, to the typefaces we

choose, to the colours of an ink or a paint, to the choice of what we

write on, to the context in which we offer it.

There’s no guarantee of safe passage for meaning. It is altered in

the journey between the maker of an object or mark, and the

interpreter.

Nothing new in this. Laurence Sterne knew it when he drew

pictures of Tristram Shandy’s plot lines in 1759 (take a look while

you’re in the library).

Rather than an essay or explanations of what brings the objects in

Dusty Feet together, we’d like to offer you something more flexible,

to encourage your own journey. We’d like you to make your own

meanings, your own links, your own conclusions.

And your own marks. Make those. On the blackboards, the door,

the yellow cards. What you’re thinking, what interests you, what

excites you and what might worry you, in whatever form you

wish. Leave marks behind.

Alister and Katherina

Curators

Back in 1543, the bakers of Marlborough marked their bread so

that complaints could be laid at the correct door. The logos we’re

used to seeing on food packaging have a long heritage. A mark of

quality, of provenance, of ownership. Laying claim.

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Wiltshire is filled with beautiful place names, their meanings lost

in everyday use. We’re so used to things coming across the globe to

feed our consumerism that a village brick works, and the careful

packaging of a sample brick evoke a distant world.

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Wiltshire’s archives are filled with extraordinary documents from

people of all sorts of backgrounds. There are glimpses into the lives

of sailors, designers, religious folk and their detractors — all

beautifully cared for, boxed, waiting to be discovered.

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Envelopes cost more than the letters that go in them. The cutting,

the folding, the glue: it all adds up. Keeping stuff — cataloguing it,

containing it, storing it, accessing it — all adds up too, even

memories.

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The henge is emblematic of Wiltshire, of rural England, of

prehistory. A beautiful monument to a community’s gargantuan

effort, to what end? We wonder if its popularity is despite or

because of its unrecoverable meaning.

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The rules of a place tell us of its people: what needs to be

encouraged, limited or forbidden between them. There’s a shared

language in the signs set down in the Highway Code, and another

in the structure of the environment around us.

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We took the time to sit and sew. Drinking tea, dunking biscuits.

Following the outlines of the letters we had planned out hours and

days before. Choosing the stitch, the silk, the needle. Speaking

with new friends, or sitting alone in bed, soothing our minds with

this addictive task.

Embroidery has a history: in the Bayeux Tapestry (which, since it’s

not woven on a loom but sewn onto cloth, is embroidered), in

ceremonial banners, in the craft skills of the past. It’s a craft for

nimble fingers and bright imagination.

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MAKE YOUR MARK HERE

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Bread stamp designers:

Alex, Charlotte Crome, Daniel Crome, Harvey Robson Jones,

Isabella Bray Ortiz, Joseph Stevenson, Katherina Radeva, Lyla,

Maddie Vernon, Mia Thomas, Mick Stevenson, Sophie Crome

Handkerchief embroidery (in order received):

Alister Lownie, Katherina Radeva, Gillian Molloy, Alyson Lownie,

Jane Woodhouse, Valerie Wallis, Pat Carthy, Glenda Scott, Carole

Pykett, Helen Crome, Rebecca Woodley, Chrystabel Lambert,

Jeannie MacMeckin, Marion Constance, Kathryn Preston, Irene

Bulson, Roger Frost, Rashmi Makam, Joan Abbott, Suzie

Gutteridge, Anonymous, Jasmine Nokes, Cerys Speight

Rule signs designed by members of Bradford on Avon Youth Club

We are grateful for loans from:

English Heritage

Market Lavington Museum

Wadworth Brewery

Wiltshire Museum, Devizes

Thanks to:

Peter

Philip

Chris

Other Chris

Other Peter

Roger

Lisa

David

Tim

Jon

Jeanette

Dimo & Rosi

Basil

Meril

Faye

Jane

Claire

Sarah

Beth

and all Salisbury’s library staff

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Curation, exhibition design, brochure design and project management by

Two Destination Language.

Two Destination Language is Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie.

www.twodestinationlanguage.com