STUDIO EXPLORATION//2024
I Am a Flesh/Text translates the transcript of I Am a Text into a large installation of A3 risographic prints. The text is arranged across a grid of pages, where it can be read vertically, horizontally, partially, and laterally. The surface produces both legibility and interference.
Each print is hand-painted with wax, applied only to the letterforms. This process transforms the printed text into a raised, leathery, tactile surface. What first appears as duplicated print reveals itself, on closer inspection, as slow, bodily, and materially unstable.
Documentation
Installation images/detail images/studio documentation.
Research Relation
This work anchors the relationship between text and flesh at the level of surface. The risograph produces repetition, while the wax reintroduces touch, labour, and difference. The work becomes a field where writing is not only read but materially built up.
Within the project, I Am a Flesh/Text demonstrates how textuality acquires body through repetition, heat, pressure, and accumulation. The printed word becomes skin-like.
QR Relation
Section: Part II: Praxis
Chapter: I AM A TEXT / I AM A FLESH/TEXT
Page: 128
Return to the document: This page provides documentation of the studio work and its surface details.