BSc Unit 3 Yr 2: Zahra Azizi, Alicia Bourla, Sung Hwa Cha, Canzy El-Gohary, Min Gu, Laura Herriotts, James Lewis, Marcos Polydorou, Daniel Swift Gibbs. Yr 3: Sarah Alfraih, Sarah Bromley, Naomi Bryden, Isabel Crewe, Oliver Sheppard, Deena Shuhaiber, Natalie Tsui, Andrew Walker, Abigail Whitehead.
The clock face is the most important thing I have ever recovered from the town dump. I found it there during the Year of the Skull and rolled it home down the path to the island and rumbled it over the footbridge. I stored it in the shed until my father was away for the day, then I strained and sweated all day to get it up into the loft. It is made of metal and is nearly a metre in diameter; it is heavy and almost unblemished; the numerals are in roman script and it was made along with the rest of the clock in Edinburgh in 1864, one hundred years exactly before my birth. Certainly not a coincidence. There were a few holes in the face which I soldered up, but I left the hole in the dead centre where the mechanism connected with the hands, and it is through that the wasp is let into the Factory. Once there it can wander about the face for as long as it likes, inspecting the tiny candles with its dead cousins buried inside if it likes, or ignoring them if it would rather. Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory Collections, collectors and hoarders are of interest to Unit 3 this year.
Abigail Ashton and Andrew Porter
Top: Gu Min, Violins. Middle: Zahra Aziz, Discarded Books. Bottom: Deena Shuihaiber, 10 Man-Powered Planes.