Monday, 17 November 2008

Going Postal

A thought. How to pass the idea of art writing on further than the walls of the exhibition space. Postcards, of course. Necause they are designed to travel distances. It is by this means that my writing may escape the confines of the specified space of the gallery.

Challenge: Size. Postcards aren't very big (even the slightly bigger than normal ones). Therefore I shall need to decide on the best way to maximise the space without compromising visual value - for I am considering the possibilities of writing as creative (art) practice.

A thought (pt.2). Handwrite the piece.

Reasoning: The artists exhibiting shall be displaying something of their 'self'. And of the transformation that takes place between the earlier (younger) self, and the present self. To wrote by hand (at least for me) is to present something of my own 'private' self. I don't like my own handwriting for a start. To me it represents a weakness.

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