Salts Mill and Bradford ‘25 Art

This art installation in the roof space at Salt’s Mill is called ‘We Will Sing’ so I felt it should be right for me when I visited late this morning. It is part of Bradford’s City of Culture ‘25.

Started the day with a wet early walk around the St Ives estate, the second week running. I had thought about going up to Penistone Hill to see the art installations up there but after a shower I didn’t really want to get wet again. So Salt’s Mill it was.

Chris was on his luncheon club duty so I got myself a coffee in the diner first and then made my way up to the 4th floor. I love this roof space area just for itself but wasn’t really sure what to make of the art. The blurry images are presumably a group singing.   Music was playing at either end in the empty rooms. In the smaller room it sounded like children's singing and in the larger one there was very tuneful whistling and singing from Emily Eagon. There was a comment that when the spinning room was in use there would have been deafening noise from the machines.
Anne Hamilton who created the art says it ‘honours the districts heritage as a world centre of the woolen industry …’.
One thing that was very noticeable was the smell of wool which I love. The images are backed with woollen felt as you can see in the extra. We got a wool mattress 18 months ago and I still love the smell of it!
Scent is very evocative and interestingly at the talk given by writer Joanne Harris she said she used perfume, created for her books/characters by a perfumer with her help, to evoke the book she was currently writing especially when writing more than one book at once and switching between them. With the use of the perfume she was immediately taken to the right book and train of thought.
The rain had stopped when I left the mill and with the sun out it actually felt warm!

Once Chris was back from Luncheon club we headed over to Ilkley cinema to see The Salt Path. It was very good, especially the casting of the main characters  but I won’t be doing the South West coastal path anytime soon, some of it looked horrendous.