An unconscious thought that gets caught, a poignant quote that is saved and never gone back to, or a line on a handwritten letter. Transient moments where words are felt and quickly forgotten. The curatorial framing of the work in this group exhibition extends the life of the forgotten and seemingly inconsequential interactions with word in everyday life - personal and universal, internal and external. 

“always near and dear to whatever it is i am thinking of” is a spliced and reconfigured sentence found in a handwritten note addressed to artist and curator Madeline Eldridge. This found sentence has acted as a catalyst to form the conceptual underpinnings of the exhibition at large. It is a focus on the relationship between the word and the reader, between the held substrate and the reader’s body, and between the space and the reader’s occupancy within it that this group of work highlights.