(© Grant)

Notes:
I wrote this in moment between pages not mine. They were pages of features, editorials, advertorials and straightforward promotional garbage printed on a spread of glossy stock – the quality you can only get from killing trees for their virgin pulp.  Browsing through Wired, Blueprint and the Architectural Review, I lifted word groups that when isolated from their body gave up their meaning. Putting these sectioned outbursts into a poem didn’t improve them although I had hoped it might.

That morning I’d been cursing Geocities for giving up too early on a good thing and casting thousands of web sites into the long archive. My html labours were ghosting fast and I was too busy to learn java, so I let the tide take every digital sand castle I’d built. This included two sites on the *Wallis Collection of citrus fruit wrapper designs collected from the 1930’s – each design reflecting the identity of their farm and created by artists influenced by both folk art and contemporary imagery.

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As an update, I have found some pages archived in the cloud so here’s a selection of images – along with a record of stats for The HoBB’s first web site that show three site visits in our first launch month.

*The Wallis Collection is housed at the HoBB and includes the Italian collection of citrus fruit wrapper designs donated by Franco Levorato.