Maybe, Maybe; what happens in that crucial instant when we interact with an unremarkable physical glitch in the fabric of our world?

Woodeson’s recent research focusses in on what she has labelled the crucial instant; the point when interaction, objects and context come together to ensure that momentous events do, or do not happen.

Extending on from research conducted after the 2017 Mexico City earthquake, Poppy Woodeson’s Maybe, Maybe series has been made specifically for MOCA London. The works quietly celebrate otherwise banal urban disruptions, eulogizing their individual possibilities. Irrespective of their potential consequences, like natural phenomena, they are neither good or evil, they just are…

The series consists of eighty-three unique images and a concrete poetry video piece developed during the pandemic lockdown of 2020. As work on the series progressed in tandem with the UK’s strict lockdown and social distancing, Poppy Woodeson found that even deliveries of mundane cleaning products had the ability to improve the mood of her day. Realizing that post and parcels were all the external stimulation that many people were getting, Woodeson decided to give away an entire iteration of the Maybe, Maybe print series. Shee raided her contacts list and social media and posted eighty unique prints across the world.

While the images may be used in future works and sizes, each of these prints is and will remain unique. An accompanying letter sets out the project and asks that if possible, the recipient emails MOCA London to confirm receipt.

The order that the acknowledging emails arrive will decide the composition of a concrete poetry video piece composed from the individual images.

Three of the image series have been set aside for unlimited download-to-print-PDFs and they can be accessed here: place, rather, lust