The Names (or If I were Film)

Version May 20th 2026

As a visual artist with a profound interest in language this project is something of an outlier, as it is a work made of names rather than words or texts. It is a continually expanding piece which currently exists both as an online HTML file (which can be seen here) and in iterations of moving image within installation contexts. It consists simply of an increasingly long, randomised, non-alphabetised list of people’s names. Each name refers to anyone whom I am able to recall who has, in any way at all, come into my orbit (or me into theirs) throughout my life thus far. Note, I've had to give a completion date, so I'm highly optimistically putting down 2044.

https://thenames.neocities.org