On the last day of March I have finished my POD project. This was a tough one. This month's theme was typography and Lisa gave me the most typography-ist piece of typography I have ever seen! Have a look below. Words are symbols to which we ascribe meaning and typography is supposed to emphasize that meaning. In fact, print on a page is really just little squiggles and our remarkable brains read meaning into them. Our brains love to read meaning into things and to do so they look for patterns. Anywhere the brain finds a pattern it recognizes, it sees meaning. Different people see different patterns and find different meanings. This is the idea I was playing with when I created my piece. I must say that I had some problems as I looked at the words as pictures and then as symbols. The two did not want to reconcile. However, that is what typography is all about: reconciling how words looks visually and what they mean. Click the pictures to enlarge
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This is my ghost girl and I thought of her when I learned the word this week because she needs to be rescued from her corsets and restrictive life. She is lucky that she has money but she still can't move or make choices about her life. She is trapped. I'm certainly glad I don't live in her times. I had a very difficult time scanning her because her penciled in face did not want to show up. It's a little more visible in real life.
Last night was the artist's trading card party at the Latcham Gallery in Stouffville. There were so many beautiful cards laid out on the tables! The trading is always a bit of a frenzy and I'm always so intent on acquiring cards that I barely notice where mine go. That's why it's good to have photographs. This time I did all my cards on the back of cereal boxes. I fell in love with the smooth surface, which is great for marker, and the colour is lovely. Cereal boxes are now one of my favorite materials, especially when they are golden brown instead of grey brown. I'll have to restrain myself from opening up the cereal boxes in the grocery store and checking out the inside colour of the cardboard! Click the pictures to enlarge
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