+447535958939
barnabywessell@gmail.com
2025
2024
2023
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+447535958939
barnabywessell@gmail.com
2025
2024
2023
Select perfomance and projects
Sketchbooks
About
Modern Wayfaring, Ongoing
Modern wayfaring is sitting on the bus between London and Bristol on the way back from your visa appointment. The NX 040 and it’s 7 oclock so it’s full and your 6 pound 50 is seeming not so worth it stuck next to the nervous man in crisis, who smells quite a bit. You’d like to talk to him see if you can help but you know your stuck next to each other for the next 3 and a half or 4 hours so you don’t. Because awkward silence is better than the unkown conversation of those potential hours. You have the window seat so you look out of it - seeing the horizon distort and shift, prying itself from the curve of the earth falling to the side of the road - along the double yellow line. The only consistant monemuments in modern wafaring are not towers, hills or churchtowers but the faces of the other travellers stony and impassive beneath headphones and flickering phone light. The new landmarks perhaps more impassive and unmoving than the old. You dont meet people as a modern wayfarer.
Static Puppets, 2025
Static puppets made at moments of emotional intensity from the last year. Often they do the thing i find so enchanting about puppets - become vessells for the bits of me I’d rather keep separate or purge.