Text Works

These works in paper manipulate the scale of language in texts by Melville, Proust, and the poets St. Jean Perse and Paul Celan. In each work the component letters of a given word achieve visual and spatial independence - letters, punctuation, and blank spaces are equally weighted - each taking its place on a single page.

The scale of the letterforms in relation to the surrounding space of the page reforms the familiar immediacy and ease of language into a physical construction. The eye can no longer easily corral letters into words and words into sentences. Thus, the intended linearity of the written thought is compromised.

In each work the act of reading is transformed into an experience of physical movement and memory. The original text remains present but resists normal modes of comprehension.