I have wanted to use the formative nature of text to form larger shapes that can hold their own as a geometric form rather than a traditional ‘body’ of text. Using an extremely small font size reduces the words to have a more linear quality, and repeating this makes a grid. It is only decipherable as text when looked at extremely closely.
I liken this process to when the meaning of a word is ‘lost’ when it is repeated over and over. The more that the word is repeated, the more unrecognisable it becomes. For me, whenever I come across the words “for instance”, I am reminded of this feeling and I can rarely say the words out loud without the phrase sounding alien to me. For instance is the phrase used in an initial experiment where typed text is reduced to point 1 in size.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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