I have a couple of ideas for art pieces that will use words. When I first conceived the idea of working with text, I looked at other text artists, Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, some of these images definitely struck a chord with me.
Barbara Kruger: You are a Prisoner of Your Ghosts
Media: No Details
Dimensions: No Details
Location: No Details
Image available at:
https://www.pinterest.com/anayerbua/barbara-kruger/
Barbara Kruger: Your Body is a Battleground (1989)
Media: Silk Screen on Vinyl
Dimensions: 112 x 112inches
Location: Broad Art Foundation
Image available at:
http://oseculoprodigioso.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/kruger-barbara-arte-conceptual.html
Barbara Kruger: Your Comfort is my Silence: (1981)
Media: Photowork
Dimensions: 56 x 40 inches
Location: Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
Barbara Kruger is renowned for her collages made from found images taken from magazines, and layered with often aggressive messages. The magazines she uses are often selling the very messages that she is disputing.
Jenny Holzer: Truisms: (1984)
Media: Metal light emitting diode units and plastic
Dimensions: 16.9 x 153,9 x 16.2cm
Location: Tate Collection
Image available at:
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/holzer-truisms-t03959
Jenny Holzer: I Can’t Tell You: (2007)
Media: Art: Black, grey, photography. Typography, White
Jenny Holzer: I Feel You (2007)
Media: Art: Black, grey, photography. Typography, White
Jenny Holzer: I See You: (2007)
Media: Art: Black, grey, photography. Typography, White
Images of the preceding three projections, which were shown in San Diego in 2007 are:
Available at:
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/02/24/jenny-holzer-projections/
Jenny Holzer’s texts are often projected on the walls of buildings. I’m not planning anything quite as elaborate as that but a projection of some kind is a definite possibility.
I am going to make a life sized figure and cover it with plasters that will have all the words that seemed to encapsulate my thoughts about sexual abuse written or painted on. Or maybe I will project the words onto the figure and scroll them across the body.
Tricia Cottrell: Preparatory Sketch: (2014)
Media: Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 11.5cm x 20cm
Location: Artists Sketchbook
Scanned Image
Words on Plasters ?
Tricia Cottrell: Preparatory Sketch: (2014)
Media: Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 11.5cm x 20cm
Location: Artists Sketchbook
Scanned Image
Words on Body ?
