Tiny Things Theme

Smoking pit

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Cigarette buts, gum, litter

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Padlock

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Hoarding knot 18mm

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Weeds growing on pavement

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The top edge on the Duncan Edwards Memorial statue in the market square. What you're looking at is fossilised sea life of a good million + years ago.

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Motif / sign above G.P. Footwear not seen before

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Fellow detector friendly hello!

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Unused little balconies

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Tiny broken pipe / water fall, spraying people with water as they walk by

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Nature thriving through the cracks

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Unused little balconies

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General wind howl

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Hum of engine + idling cars

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Antibac smell!

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Gentle flapping of purple bin liner hanging out of bin

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Gutter drip by cash point

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Small slow sway of sign on street

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Spiders web Making a new home on the high street with the perfect view

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Geological story of the Black Country Video by Ellie Ramsey Narrated by Graham Worton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaxRX8-c2fU

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Good details survive

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Wet grass smell

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Flower for the High Street Pick up your flowers on the way home

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Tiny shrub on top of church

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Till noise from convenience store

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Language

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Tiny acts of random kindness like picking up a dropped pen for someone else

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Happy playing football

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Moment of silence - no people / cars (seconds)

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Tiny patches of grass under bench

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Small graffiti

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Balcony!

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Jack and his friends visited the High Street with their school teacher during a study trip. He learned a lot of things about sustainability, and how to grow food. He was so inspired. Atifa gave him some seeds from fruits on the street garden, and later he planted them in a small unused bucket. After a few months he came back to street to gift the kitchen some of the fruit from his tiny garden at home. Atifa felt so proud of the young generation of Dudley.

Creative writing Imagining Actions Emotion Food Future Gift Growing Happiness Imagination Learning Nature People Plantlife Sustainable Tiny Things Unused

Flap (gentle) of covers on crowd barriers

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A bowl of nature Nature's cereal, only to be consumed by wildlife.

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Car radio

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Bottle tops

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Tiny litter signs

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Broken tile edge

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Tiny random acts of kindness like picking up blown away posters

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Road - kerb bricks

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Rust

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QR Code William Hill

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A More-Than-Human Story of Dudley High Street This story is a collective outcome after utilising completed Street Detectorism maps, and More-Than-Human findings to create of 'A More-Than-Human Story of Dudley High Street'. As part of a dissertation study, this workshop invited participants to share their imagination and develop stories from the previous findings on Dudley High Street. This story creatively archives nature on Dudley High Street, with emphasis for the value of storytelling and nature at the forefront of this task.

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Tiny dog yap! woof!

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Break light red glow

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The themes I investigated were the Connections, Movement, Routes and Ways. My gift explores those themes through a figurative expression hidden within the structure of the dreamcatcher, allowing for a flexible interpretation by the audience, and to aid the imagination. The structure of the dreamcatcher symbolizes the relationship between the destination and the journey the user undertakes, but while it highlights the importance of the destination, placing it in the centre as the biggest piece, it emphasizes the significance of the journey over the destination in the ratio of one big element vs many small elements. This can be relevant to the High Street, if the connections are thought of beyond the transport means, and can relate to anything from the layout of the landscape of the High Street, to the interactions between the users. The web symbolizes the connections between the pieces, plotting the blue foam pieces around the different lengths of the thread, off the centre where the destination piece is plotted. This is meant to show how the connections can be made in various ways and that there is no set order or pattern, meaning that the movement is individual and the connections are adaptable. The blue foam pieces can be viewed as points or highlights of the journey, or they can represent different ways of getting to, and from the centre, suggesting that the journey doesn’t end with the destination. Another way in which the web can be interpreted is that the small foam pieces are the destinations, the thread is the connection between them and the big piece symbolizes the decision making.

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Nature thriving through the cracks

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