Medium: thread, oak gall ink on paper: 19th C. music manuscripts (Dantier/Paris), 8.325 x 8.725 in., 2021
An improvisational remix - Hand written music manuscripts from the Nineteenth Century - drawn with oak gall ink on paper - are hand cut, hand woven, layered and knotted/sewn. A new text takes formation while intuitively recombining the sliced manuscripts, responding to the existing marks and their graphic patterns.
The deliberate hand drawn notations and staves are divorced from their intended musical equivalent; and when re-assembled present a cacophony of lines, notes and marks. Sewn threads amplify and accentuate the fragmented notations and lyrics, as a linear and graphic element.
I am utilizing both a reductive and additive process, which creates alternative rhythmic patterning and unique musical re-interpretations. Just as music is an experience monitored through time, the woven manuscripts are the result of metrical time, and ultimately a metaphor for both time and fruition.
The audio, visual and temporal merge in a hybrid form.
