I have been increasingly interested in the dual nature of type as an image in it's own right and as a decorative element that injects non verbal meanings into a viewer's understanding of an image. The file is quite large , at the finshed size of 26 inches wide the details (missing onscreen unfortunately) become signifigant.

I have tried to borrow some of the venom from the rhetoric of political posters while at the same time relying on the slick quality I associate with art posters or exhibition publicity. The text framing the image is intentionally obscure and self contradictory. I see the text operating a bit like the logos and garbled slogans that are often appliquéd onto jackets and jeans - the literal meaning of the text is almost nonsense but the cultural meaning is clear.

 

 

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a random pic form the set