attention alphabets
I enjoy making digital crops of scans of painted/collaged papers. They are almost always more intriguing than the full pieces I have worked over. There’s a captivating randomness for how those small elements ended up next to each other, which is always a surprise. Sometimes I crop different areas of the same piece, but find there is always one that seems most pleasing. This is a kind of attention.
g’s rising
a pile of o’s
cloud of s’s
a piece of PRIVACY
VAC is recurring. Vacation. Vache. Voice. Vacuuming. From Wikipedia:
VÄk or VÄc (stem vÄc-, nominative vÄk) is the Sanskrit word for “speech”, from a verbal root vac- “speak, tell, utter”.
Personified, VÄk is a goddess; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajapati and married to him; in other places she is called the “mother of the Vedas” and wife of Indra. In Hinduism, she is identified with Bharati or Sarasvati.