Name
distraKted by Mark Webster
Description
*A written language is a complex tissage of signs and symbols. A conventional system of coherent patterns with which one seeks to express meaningful actions, ideas, thoughts and feelings. What happens though when one loses the capacity to decipher these visual constructs?*
*My present experience of text has become increasingly fragmentary. Words become a fragile material, at times liquid and forever from my grasp, at other times brittle and disintegrating before my eyes.* distraKted *takes my work with language to a more radical level. In distorting, displacing and at times pulverising textual elements, the work is an attempt to express the rhapsodic patchwork of these linguistic fragments and their fragility.*
*The work is presented as an artist curation of 24 unique digital pieces and will be available at verse works. These works have been made using custom-made software written in Processing. Each piece has evolved from textual elements for which a special font was also developed in part for some of the iterations.*
Mark Webster