Whilst using my source text to make the linear transfers I was paying close attention to the syntax of the speech. I began to focus on the keywords and how in any piece of text it is these words that would be picked out if you were to skim-read it to identify the basic concept behind the writing. “FALMOUTH // UNIVERSITY // STUDY // STUDENT”. But what if I were to invert this concept? If I were to focus on conjunctions and other ‘non-keywords’, how could the text be identified against any other? “AND // OF // THE // WAS // BE” Visually, to highlight these types of words could potentially form an unusual visual ‘fingerprint’ – by omitting or reducing the size of other words to leave these behind. I have initially tried this by reducing the size of all other words on the page, and presenting the results in a linear format that allows the conjunctives to make a visual statement on the page. The keywords no longer hold the identity of the text; a new visual identity is captured by the placement of conjunctives on the page. Each text has its own unique use of these words that will be shown when compared to other texts. I would like to collect a number of texts, either existing or written by me, and to standardise the font/size/layout of them so that the patterns are easily comparable between each other.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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