Inkjet prints and tracing paper, 24″x36″, 2016
Infogestion: Am More than Four, 2017
This series is a collection of my personal responses to various readings assigned during an English Modern Literature course in 2016. Each poster represents a month of responses (containing at least 4 short writings and a few essays). I really enjoyed this class as many writings inspired other projects. It really opened my eyes to artistic qualities and techniques of writers/poets. However, the course was no walk in the park in regard to assignment quantity. I am in no way an English major so there were times where I felt completely congested with word and analysis — hence the title, Info-gestion. Initial titles that emerged from the overlapping were: (1) Moments (2) by Parts (3) of the Year.
The first 3 pictured with tracing overlays spell out “infogestion” in the the cut-outs (using Mend typeface letterforms). The 4th poster was compiled the following semester. This one stood out from the previous 3 as far as timing and my responses. The title that emerged, “Am More than Four,” aligned with my overall thesis of piecing together various accounts of the same happening to display a fuller (or complex) picture. At the conclusion of my literature class, I allowed time to pass before revisiting and no longer felt the tracing paper to be necessary.
Related Project: Mend Typeface
Portion of readings/listenings if you’re interested:
(B = book)
- Andy Warhol:
- POPism (B)
- “What Is Pop Art?”
- The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (B)
- Bessie Smith:
- “Jailhouse Blues”
- “St. Louis Blues”
- Charles Baudelaire:
- “Modernity,” from “The Painter of Modern Life” (B)
- Flowers of Evil (B)
- Frank O’Hara:
- “Having a Coke with You”
- “Music”
- Gertrude Stein:
- “A Transatlantic Interview”
- Tender Buttons (B)
- Gwendolyn Brooks:
- Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (B)
- “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi.
Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon.” - “The Mother”
- Herbert Marcuse: “The Affirmative Character of Culture,” in Negations (B)
- Langston Hughes:
- “The Weary Blues”
- “Cat and the Saxophone (2 AM)”
- “The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain” (1926)
- “Cross”
- Matei Calinescu: Five Faces of Modernity,
Chapter 1 “The Idea of Modernity,” 13-41 (B) - Nella Larsen: Quicksand (B)
- sianne ngai: “Irritation,” Ugly Feelings (B)
- Susan Buck-Morss: “Aesthetics and Anaesthetics” (B)
- T.S. Eliot:
- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
- “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
- “The Waste Land”
- “Ulysses, Order and Myth”
- Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed (B)
- Walter Benjamin: “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” (B)
*Photo Credit: Matthew Garin