The Old Workers

From all my research the most interesting thing for me was the old directories of Manchester. Yesterday I went back to the library and photocopied pages out of the directory to get names of cotton industry workers, and investigate other professions. Names, the idea of working with actual identities excites me. I also popped up to the 'Special Collections' in which i found a book titled '19/55' its a 'Slade school of Art' post graduate Sculpture collective, they created a print portfolio of the 2009 graduates work, including altogether 34 artists work. Within this book was one piece that in particular grabbed my attention, it was a finger print design, but it was actually made up of words, overlapping and interlocking. I loved the simplicity of this image and working with the finger print as a form of identity.

At the moment I am experimenting with the idea of mixing the finger print, with the names and identities of workers. Potentially creating a story.