This will be the title of my essay, I will be looking into one
tiny aspect of how we use and understand language, concentrating specifically
on the relationship between the recorded voice and music. I will be seeking
parallels between that and the relationship between printed image and text.
My approach will be a reductive one, as I
am not an audio scientist or skilled musician nor am I a language theorist. I
sing and record songs and I am a drawer and printer of image and text. In my work I am interested in the way images and text are loaded with external connotations. I like to play with these connotations; fitting pieces together in combinations of text and image in order to explore the way I read image and text. My personal standpoint as someone who struggles with written language that at times can appear completely alien towards me but for which I have an immense enthusiasm; this is a motivating factor in the desire to incorporate language into my drawings. Maybe by adopting language I hope I can persuade myself to accept it? Or more likely I hope that it will accept me?blabllalabab!
So is it is my uncomfortable relationship to language that motivates me to seek out and define as positive a 'uncomfortableness' in the way language operates?
So is it is my uncomfortable relationship to language that motivates me to seek out and define as positive a 'uncomfortableness' in the way language operates?
I'm not going to attempt to prove any link
between music and art, what I will concentrate on is a parallel “uncomfortableness"
that I perceive between the ways we integrate language into these two aspects
of our culture. A clunkiness in the way we use language as a conveyor of meaning and thought and as an element incorporated into our creative practice.
