18.01.10

Safle and the St David's Partnership reveal a remarkable intervention to The Hayes, Cardiff.

Dotted in and around the busy intersection between The
Hayes and Cardiff’s new St David’s development are
various rather ordinary and inconspicuous looking
bollards. However, upon closer inspection shoppers,
workers and residents will find that some are not as
ordinary as they seem.

small paper image of people and tree View into one of the Post Secrets bollards.

Artist Jane Edden has been selected to design and construct a series of miniature worlds within the bollards, each viewable through a discreet hole at the top of each bollard. Viewers may find frozen-like snapshots, miniature constructions and laser-cut figurines, each offering a window into another world - objects and imagery conceived by Edden whilst working in collaboration with students from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

This discreet piece of public art, named Post Secret, is a work that creates its own street theatre when people interact with it, inviting others to look into and discover the bollards.

Jane Edden: “Within the bollards are miniature constructions, created in a stylized monochrome form. Some of these environments seem to transcend the space that can be perceived to be within the bollards, this interplay with the interior and exterior space is designed to create the feeling of looking into another place or world.”
The permanent installation is part of a major public art initiative managed by Safle and the St David’s Partnership.

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