Paragraph of text, an installation for typography

I don’t know what’s drawing me towards more sculptural and installation projects, but I think I’m slowly defining what direction I want my art to take.

After considering different topics of text to use for my paragraph layout for the typography elective, I came up with the idea of writing how I came up with the idea. It sounds confusing but all I did was write my response to the critique we had from our sentence illustration project and my thought processes and actions to resolve the paragraph.

The text for my paragraph is this:

Get rid of broken bulb Push it back Try spot varnish Ask Ian Write with wire Construct so it can be reproduced Limited Copies One hundred words Scan glass Photocopy shattered glass Try tracing paper Project text with light Manipulate shadow Keep shattered glass Spot varnish looks good Find smooth shiny paper Place sentence in top left corner Mount broken glass top right and bottom left Shadow in the centre Spot varnish paragraph of text Thought process of coming up with this idea Place bottom right

I thought this language worked well with my sentence, I have no idea, it’s just a simple juxtaposition of the statement. I left out all full stops because I wanted it to be just one stream of thought/ text.

I was pleased again with the spot varnish and next tried the installation. From the paragraph you’ll see that my original intention was to have the image projected on to the letterpressed paper, but I actually preferred it on its own, huge on the wall.