After last week’s feedback, my final conclusion was: SEE, EXPLORE, EXPERIMENT, & QUESTION MORE. So my initial thought was: How can I narrow down my inquiry and what is my intention behind my interest?
This week my intention is to first make and then think.
Important questions: Private speech about what? | What am I interested in designing & how would that fit in the existing contexts?
Reference – Jenny Holzer –
Inflamatory Essays is a project that caught my attention. This are 100 word paragraphs that
At the end of the Autumn term, the work of Phil Bains was being exhibited in the Lethaby Gallery. I was intrigued by his work and found a similar interest with my work. The use of language as material, the exploration of typography as a rehtorical device to present information and the influence of his faith in his work. .
Reflecting of my work in Unit 2, I produce a personal project where I used typography to visualize my prayers. By doing concrete poertry I identified and became interested in the material nature of language as well as the kinship between words, intention, structure, and meaning.
Phil Bains work helps makes me reflect on the ways in which I can explore further this relationship. How can I use other methods as a rhetoric device to visualize the intention, meaning, desiere behind words. On the other hand, Bains’ work is focused on public lettering, signage, posters, public monuments, however my interest is more on intimate and personal speech.
Rearticulated inquiery: How can I use the tools of GCD as rethotic elements to visualize personal dialogues?
How can the relationship between typography and imagery help visualize personal dialogues
Questions:
•What will you bring forward from your Unit 2 enquiry? What are the opportunities for further exploration, speculation, and risk-taking?
I will bring forward my interest in exploring the kinship between words, language, intentions, form and meaning. Adding other GCD elements to further explore this relationship.
• How will you advance your enquiry through attention to craft and production? What tool or medium do you need to master in order to do this? How will you develop this work through iteration?
I will advance my enquiry through typographic and image manipulation in order to explore this relationship. I would be exploring mediums such as publication, collage and image manipulation. I will be developing this work through a variety of iterations that will explore different combination of mediums.
• What audiences, publics, or networks would be impacted by or interested in this work? What are the most relevant ways of engaging with them? Consider specific forms of publishing, circulation, participation, etc.
The nature of this project is intended to be observed and apprecieted for an audience who is looking to be inspired by the typographic and image treatment. I envison this work being part of a digital or phisical archive for people looking for resources.
Explorations 01
Looking for ways to explore the relation of language, words, meaning and intentions, I decided to anchore my exploration in private speech.
Private speeches involve expressing personal thoughts, feelings, or reflections. So my question shifted to: How can I use graphic elemets and type treatment to visualize and share private speech?
I found ‘A Humument’ by Tom Phillips. Phillips takes an existing Victorian novel, “A Human Document” by W.H. Mallock, and transforms each page through expressive typography, painting, and drawing. Each page becomes a unique piece of visual art that captures the artist’s private reflections and responses to the original text.
I liked the way in which he reinterpret private thoughts and emotions within the context of an existing literary work. That led me to think that thoughts, feelings, or reflection are often formed from existing ideas and cultural backgrounds.
My idea was to respond to this referent. I scanned some pages from the Bible which represents my background of believes. The same way as Tom Phillips highlighted words and reconfigured the text. My idea was reconfigure the text and highlight private reflections and responses to the original text.
