{"title":"Guy Bigland","description":"\u003cp\u003eGuy Bigland works with photography, text, books, print, digital media and painting to examine the mechanics of meaning, language and systems of order. His work is held in public and private collections in the UK (including Tate, V\u0026amp;A and the National Poetry Library), Europe and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"guy-bigland-tla","title":"Guy Bigland: TLA","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover | 10 x 15 cm | 28 pp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuy Bigland | 2025 onwards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEditions of 100 copies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eTLA\u003c\/em\u003e is an ongoing series of books featuring photographs of occurrences of three words in public areas. The photographs are printed one per page with the three letter acronym (or TLA) of the words at the top of the page. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach book gathers images on a different theme.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eacronym\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter or part being pronounced separately; an initialism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA word formed from the initial letters of other words or (occasionally) from the initial parts of syllables taken from other words, the whole being pronounced as a single word.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOxford English Dictionary \u003c\/strong\u003e(OED)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGuy Bigland works with photography, text, books, print, digital media and painting to examine the mechanics of meaning, language and systems of order. 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His work is held in public and private collections in the UK (including Tate, V\u0026amp;A and the National Poetry Library), Europe and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guy Bigland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47534972600578,"sku":"BK-GB-RMMR-001-OP","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_1048.jpg?v=1775134885"},{"product_id":"guy-bigland-all-the-time-in-the-world","title":"Guy Bigland: All the Time in the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eEndorse folded newsprint | 34 x 50 cm | 26 pp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuy Bigland | 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond edition of 50 copies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work, printed as a newspaper, lists every second of the day according to international standard notation ISO 8601.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is one day, any day and every day. The notations have been arranged to fit within a standard broadsheet newspaper format, a publication associated with daily record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 line = 1 second\u003cbr\u003e1 column = 2.5 minutes\u003cbr\u003e1 page = 1 hour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eISO 8601\u003cspan\u003e is an \u003c\/span\u003einternational standard\u003cspan\u003e covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and \u003c\/span\u003etime\u003cspan\u003e-related data. It is maintained by the \u003c\/span\u003eInternational Organisation for Standardisation\u003cspan\u003e (ISO) and was first published in 1988, with updates in 1991, 2000, 2004, and 2019, and an amendment in 2022. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-0\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe standard provides a well-defined, unambiguous method of representing calendar dates and times in worldwide communications, especially to avoid misinterpreting numeric dates and times when such data is transferred between \u003c\/span\u003ecountries with different conventions\u003cspan\u003e for writing numeric dates and times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGuy Bigland works with photography, text, books, print, digital media and painting to examine the mechanics of meaning, language and systems of order. 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