I’ve been doing further research into Fiona Banner (http://www.fionabanner.com/). Katrina M. Brown said of Banner’s work “but what we’re really looking at is the gap between function and failure – a word spelled incorrectly collapses the relationship to meaning and foregrounds its authors’ feelings.” The bold text is key to my own work now too. Banner is usually working with text (rather than writing, in my case) and she focusses on text sources that are often only a small part of the overall stimulus, i.e. film, where just showing the script is only part of the source.
The small things phrase I’ve torn up and glued onto postcards have become part of a postcard exchange, in a collaborative project with other artists I know (many being graduates from Hereford College of Arts). I am excited by the prospect and results of this exchange, and wonder whether I could do this with even more artists.
In my own work I am seeing how far I can destroy writing, while still having an indication that the result came from writing. I often utilise processes which takes the control out of my own hands. Ripping, random sticking, etc.
I find the conversation that goes on around pieces of work, artists and studios really exciting. I could start a visual conversation with more postcards (or some other form?), maybe with the same broken up ‘small things’ phrase. To increase the postcards reach I could make a mass of the postcards and provide addressed envelopes for their return.
