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December 02, 2003
text
Big session yesterday [more long than tall, it has to be said]. Two Unstuck Models, a lot of white paint and the complete works of Shakespeare. I want words on these pictures, you see. Text as it's called in art circles [and indeed in many other circles].
But text is a dominant form. Words will be read if they can be – our brains are conditioned that way. Or rather the left-hand side of our brain is. The left-hand side wants to know things, and wants them labelled if possible. The right-hand side is happy with images and feelings and a sort of smooth, random, experience. But the left-hand side loves the words.
So as soon as there is a recognisable word, any images come second. I don’t want that. I am trying to get text onto the pictures at the same level as the other marks. I’m trying to get the text firing the right-hand side of the brain. So I put it on backwards, or in foreign languages, or both. So it isn’t an actual text so much as an implied text, with all the connotations of history, learning, libraries, dust and echoes of Umberto. Old books, knowledge, understanding. Then I make pictures.
Posted by john at December 2, 2003 05:31 PM
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