If you’ve wandered through the Cotton Factory in recent months, you may have seen a large installation on the third floor and wondered what it’s all about.
The piece is called FORTERRA (2018) and was crafted by C. Wells:
“FORETERRA, as both performance and object was created of/from the periphery roads which frame the Cotton Factory – Sherman, Biggar and Landsdowne. Transferring their present-day street record through the technique of frottage or rubbing; the factory’s periphery roads are visually translated as a ‘bridge’, a ‘roadway post and lintel system, connecting the Cotton Factory to its community.
As a composite word and idea, FORTERRA translates to one of ‘strength’ and ‘ground’. Its mapping pins augment the work in a coded manner, tethering to the mandate of the Cotton Factory – blue as a public facility, purple as industrial, green as recreational and red as commercial.”
For more information, please visit www.cwells.com.