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Textures in Italic and pictograms

January 30, 2015 by Lin Kerr Leave a Comment

China Plate
China Plate

This is one of the first textural panels I did – in the high hopes of doing 20! I could not resist adding a focal point – this seems to happen to me all the time. The next one was a more angular cursive Italic, with an ink stick since that was the topic.

ink Stick
Ink Stick

Sadly I get bored very quickly and while I wanted to do 20 by No. 3 I am already off on a different idea – here is a funky alphabet I developed using a syllabary from Central Africa as my inspiration. The background is teabags. I am a total obsessive – making tea, then emptying the bags, washing and drying them. then they got cut up and glued to the background with wheat starch glue and sprayed with fixative. I don’t ever se=m to just rattle pieces off! The background in the first one is Parker ink and a little bleach; which I was happy to allow to fade, and the Ink Stick one is painted with tea, with the stick stitched on using gold thread before mounting.

Syllabary
Syllabary

I could not face filling an entire page with pictograms, and stitched ostrich beads onto the one below. I created a whole story in little images with a kind of code, and drew them onto some fabulous Chinese bark paper. Each panel is block mounted onto wood.

 

Pictograms on Bark Paper
Pictograms on Bark Paper

Now we await my “Manifesto of a Maker…

All of these are block mounted 21cm square. The copper one and the A is for Ox in yesterday’s blog post, are officially part of this series.

6 down; 14 to go!
To read more about the concept of textural panels, scroll back a few posts.

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