Documenting People

Moving on from mark making I wanted to make a variety of different accounts of individuals and was inspired by the information that I found in the receipts. Like Sophie Calle I wanted to record people in their everyday activities, however not with a camera but through journalism. I did this with continual line drawing with each word joining the next creating a long line of information, at a distance making it appear hidden due to the fact that it is hand written. 

Simply it is a fine balance between the distinct marks of the fine liner and the hidden words in the sentence. I was writing what I was hearing whilst not looking at the page creating a blind drawing of loose lettering and this in turn created an organic pattern across the page. The artist I looked at during this time was Vito Acconci, an artist who is known for using language as an art form and using words and their layout/perspective in an unconventional way to create structures. Therefore they become more then just words, they become the medium, the form and the line.

Vito acconci 'the city of words' 1999