HEATED WORDS: INITIAL RESEARCH — House of Vans, London, 2015

A printed exhibition object issued for Heated Words: Initial Research, House of Vans, London, 2015. Folded to pamphlet scale and opening to a larger poster format, the piece documents a project centred on the circulation of an anonymous transfer-letter style moving through late 1970s and 1980s New York street culture, early hip-hop, punk, custom clothing, and graphic vernacular.

Dimensions: 27 × 20 cm folded; 54 × 40 cm unfolded. Printed in black and red.

The recto consists of a single full-image panel: a black-and-white street photograph overprinted in red with title, dates, and contributor list. The verso opens into four panels combining typographic enlargement, a diagrammatic mapping of names and scenes, programme information, and a text by Gary Warnett. It functions less as neutral exhibition support than as a compact research surface.

A vernacular form with no fixed author passes into exhibition research; exhibition research passes into print; print remains as the retained object. What is offered is not the source material itself, but its organised afterlife: a folded record of circulation, selection, and display.

Condition: very good overall, with original fold lines, light handling wear, minor softening to edges and corners, and faint creasing consistent with use and format.