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- Imagine a future in which all written words are tapped out, on keyboards or screens. To read these words requires a vision that cuts through paper or glass, in order to extract the meaning reflected from behind, rather than allowing itself to be detained at the surface. The linear traces of affect, which had once captivated the eyes of readers, are now written off as a distraction. They have been replaced by a vocabulary of emoticons, presenting surrogates for feeling rather than the feeling itself. With the expressive power of the line long forgotten, next to go will be the voice -
Ingold 2020, Correspondences p. 4
A simple five word statement written with a typewriter onto a set of white A4 sheets of paper without an ink ribbon, to define is to confine, becomes a gradually fading trace of five words, almost in/visible.
JC
untitled | text on paper | 5x ( 21 x 29.7 cm) | as part of the exhibition Mediated Existence curated by Naoko Mabon | Edinburgh | 2016 | photographed by Create Create
untitled | Edinburgh | 2016 | photographed by the artist
untitled | Edinburgh | 2016 | photographed by the artist
untitled, becomes an obsessive mantra questioning the meaning of this statement through a process of self-reflection.
untitled | text on paper | 21 x 29.7 cm | Kobe | 2017 | photographed by Masahiro Kawanaka
untitled | Kobe | 2017 | photographed by Masahiro Kawanaka
untitled | Kobe | 2017 | photographed by Masahiro Kawanaka
untitled | Kobe | 2017 | photographed by Masahiro Kawanaka
untitled translated and indented with a metal stamp onto a set of white A4 sheets of paper without ink, 定義するということは閉じ込めることです (to define is to confine), becomes a gradually fading trace, almost in/visible.
untitled (detail) | text on paper | 21 x 29.7 cm | Seto | 2019 | photographed by Masahiro Kawanaka
untitled (detail) | Seto | 2019 | photographed by Masahiro Kawanaka
untitled (detail) | Seto | 2019 | photographed by Masahiro Kawanaka