Julia Vance will be addressing us at the next letter Exchange lecture on the 14th November. She does such exciting work - this first example is the word "og" which in Norwegian and Swedish means "and" Julia Vance The lecture is titled Peeling Stone and she says: “I create letter shapes or a part of a letter. By expressing a third dimension in our two dimensional world of lettering and words, I seek form for the eyes and food for thought.” Julia extracts the letter from its background to give … [Read more...]
LX Exhibition 1 – Words set free – starting out
Opening: Today - see below.We started talking about the LX exhibition a year ago - the venue is The Free Word Centre and our exhibition was themed Words Set Free.I was chatting to my daughter about it and she said she has started writing a short story titled Rope of Words, so I played with that idea in my head. But that idea blossomed into my current big project of making an artist's book using the script. The 40cm square format didn't suit it and the illustrations all seemed as though they'd … [Read more...]
Words Set Free
The Letter Exchange Exhibition promises to be an exciting one.There so many ways of interpreting this, from political interpretations, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and many more. One of the things that I thought about was a quotation from Joan Baez where she said something like "after fighting so hard for freedom of speech people express themselves using such ugly language".Then I spoke to Megan my daughter and she told me about her story Rope of Words, which she said she was working … [Read more...]