A text piece created for 41 carriage cards within the subway carriages, two voices while away an indeterminate summer afternoon. The time and place are dislocated, although there is a suggestion of a wartime, pre-war, post-war lull. Which war, however, is harder to pin down, as is the relation between the two although they might seem nostalgic for a previous time which they may or may not recall with clarity. The last line implies a darkness which locates the train of thought within the reader's present sense of place.

ruth BARKER'S practice is best understood as a series of gestures functioning as footnotes in a process of understanding. Using the conceptual tools of poetics, narrative, scale, and research, she employs fine-art language as a way to ask, understand, and re-imagine through open work in a variety of media including intervention, text, and installation.

BARKER was born in 1979 in Kirkstall, West Yorkshire, moving to Glasgow in 1998, where she studied on the Environmental Art and MFA programmes at The Glasgow School of Art, and has been based ever since. She produces both gallery and public works (both temporary and permanent) as part of a site-specific practice. Her work is shown locally, nationally and internationally. In addition to her individual practice, Ruth also works as part of the Artists Collaborative Something Haptic. For more information please visit www.somethinghaptic.com