"Obit" comprises a stone taken from the original building of the Tolbooth and formed to suggest balance. The stone becomes a plinth, both physically and metaphorically, for the history of the Tolbooth, reiterated by a book comprising linocut images and texts that make a personal reference, through accounts of fictional individuals, to the factual history of the building.
I was interested in the notion of balance as epitomising the nature of the Tolbooth which, as a consequence of centuries of rebuilding and extensions, had become a rather awkward collage of shapes and styles charged with the functional demands of its various manifestations. This, together with the suggestion that the history of a place can be defined by an accrual of anecdotal evidence of the lives that it creates, prompted a number of anonymous testimonies set against images and facts reminiscent of pamphlets and visitor guides which provide snapshot accounts of places of historical interest.