distraKted #17

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