ReVisions 2007

The work in this series imagines language transformed into artifact through the act of writing. Informed by aspects of calligraphy, papermaking, and the history of the book, these pieces explore the visual and material presence of written language when fused with its paper support.

Fragments of historical text have been redrawn with liquid paper pulp in cursive script in arrangements suggested by their content, which includes lines and phrases from the Japanese poet Bashō, the Chinese sage Lao Tzu, the American poet Emily Dickinson, and the French writer Edmond Jabès. The behaviour of high-shrinkage pulp in conjunction with certain letter forms and their arrangement generates a new “translation” of the text.