Some wonderful creativity and playing with constraints going on in Mustarinda (Paljakka), Finland, by local (to me) artist Emily Joy. Exploring the relationships between linear prose and atemporal image.
Just how much is in not very much? At this point i have written just over 8000 words to describe a little over 10cm of a small twig, down to the first branching section you can see in the image below. It is a pine or spruce twig covered with two types of lichen making it very detailed, textured and tangled. A complex thing to describe then.
I’m about to start the most complicated part of this text piece; the intricately tangled lichen over the smaller branching twig sections. 8000 words of not very much, certainly a lot of repetition, but surprisingly little information. I find i am having to chose words carefully. A sort of code is building up, perhaps that’s too formal, it’s more a collection of terms to differentiate between similar each strand or area. It reminds me of German compound words; ‘the-dark-strand-in-an-m-shape’.
The methodology is simple:…
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