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During the time I was thinking about what to do for this commission, I came across this post card I purchased at the National Museum in Prague in 1996. It seemed fortuitous as I hadn't noticed it for years even though it was on a bulletin board in my son's bedroom. It's called The Destna Assumption and was painted in 1450. It's not the one source of reference for my banner drawings but it is in the family of annunciation and assumption paintings transmitting a text message via a twisting and turning banner, that were influential to me. In many ways it represents a form of text messaging much more sophisticated than what today is called text messaging; for example, the text is shown transmitted on a two-sided, spatially complex and varied platform that in some passages causes the text to be illegible.
During the time I was thinking about what to do for this commission, I came across this post card I purchased at the National Museum in Prague in 1996. It seemed fortuitous as I hadn't noticed it for years even though it was on a bulletin board in my son's bedroom. It's called The Destna Assumption and was painted in 1450. It's not the one source of reference for my banner drawings but it is in the family of annunciation and assumption paintings transmitting a text message via a twisting and turning banner, that were influential to me. In many ways it represents a form of text messaging much more sophisticated than what today is called text messaging; for example, the text is shown transmitted on a two-sided, spatially complex and varied platform that in some passages causes the text to be illegible.
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Yes, it is exactly that illegibility that I think is analogous to your "reversals" and your twisting of the banners, in that you have to have known the real verse in order to understand the message. This happens all the time in religious texts, NT and rabbinic texts, e.g. in partial quotations from prophets in NT, or partial quotes from the Bible in the Talmud, where the words which are not stated are the more significant, and the intended reader supplies them. So, if you don't know "Rise and Shine", "Shine and Rise" is meaningless. You are in the tradition.
Judith,
Thanks for your insight. I think there's another kind of illegibility at work here, though "illegibility" isn't exactly the right word. The phrases I reverse are selected because they are either popularly used or cliches. The overuse of these phrases drains them of their original meaning and they become not "something" and "something", but rather "something and something" making their original meaning illegible, or at least compromising the legibility of their original meaning.
Right, there are 2 different challenges to the viewer in your project: the reversals themselves (e.g. "forget and forgive"), and the twisting of the banner, hiding some of the text. But maybe the text is itself original, so one couldn't fill in the blanks anyway. Can you provide a sketch at this point?
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