Todays Physical Encryption (Fluxus) - February 2025
Organic > Collagraph - Pressed > Pulp - Screen > Jet - Hair > Surface - Pixel > Pencil - Language > Encrypted.
Pencil and ink on blotting paper.
950 x 601mm
Todays Physical Encryption Blurb:
This work is a Fluxus influenced documentation of processes. A changing mark making journey through print, thought, ink and relief.
Here I have printed a collagraph using organic found material. This immediate finding of form allowed shapes and language to appear. I found meaning in the tiniest of shadows, looking at anything that the pulp picked up and I could recognise.
I found a shape, the next step, the narrative. This new character/letter/form/matter looked familiar, but why? Why did it matter? Does anything matter when you are allowing only chance to visually lead you?
I took this collagraph brail as the main character, I ran with it.
It danced in ink, upside down, in pencil, in pen, it grew, it shrank and it changed scale. I used only the previous dance as the catalyst for the next move.
Had I found something aesthetically similar to calligraphy? Eastern influence? It felt like brail and textured, yet also only ever visual? How does it present itself? Do I help it present itself?
I decided this work was the ultimate encryption. The WhatsApp, the secret code, the familiar shape, the clue or simply none of the above?
I’d like this work to ask you a question about what you think it could be, how did it get here? Does it’s creation matter at all? Is it’s creation and process the only thing that matters?
Manifesto:
The preliminary work: True to Narrative
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