it's called 'between the lines.' she cut out every single word from klassen's 'rahowa! this planet is all ours' (rahowa means racial holy war.)
this never appeared on my blog (because i wasn't blogging yet,) but in my sophomore year i did a series of photographs called 'words'
i initially began this project by attempting to cut out every single word from freud's 'the ego and the id.' i never got that far, but i did cut out plenty of words to work with...
after the critique at school, i didn't really go anywhere with this project. it was my intention to give myself a long, tedious task to complete and then create images. the resulting photographs were meant to be symbolic of a number of things... how we are surrounded by words, how singular words can become incredibly important and significant, how we spit out words without always considering them, how we can be greedy with our words, and of course, words are like cocaine. (that's kind of a joke. but with that mirror photograph, what else do i mean?) I never figured out the connection between the monotonous cutting out of words and the content of the images, nor did I have any real reason why i used Freud. realizing these things, i abandoned the project. (though i continued working with books and words in my 'books' series and 'subtext' series... more an indication of my obsession with words rather than a logical growth)
with boussard-reifel's piece, her intentions are clear. 'read between the lines.' removing the words from a white power book. our intentions are not very similar. perhaps the connection is a purely visual one. Perhaps... something to think about.
in other news, i've updated my website and i'm looking at a space for my senior exhibition tonight.
that is all.
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