Mike Halliwell

 

In the writing of a fictional narrative, an author sets the scene of the story by describing spaces, locations and environments in which the characters interact. The setting for the plot often performs a crucial role, a carrier of detailed cognitive information such as time, mood, tone and distance, and  communicating with our memories, imaginations and preconceptions to form a backdrop and anchor for the action, or even transcending this to become a character in the story itself.

 

My work is concerned with the extraction of this spatial information from fiction in order to produce complimentary material illustrating the 'set' of the narrative. The aim of the work is to represent this information in such a way so that the work itself as 'of' the world of the fictional narrative, a document or object that is in itself illustrative, an authentic artifact belonging to the world built by the author.