about
My practice explores language, methods of communication and the tension between the fluidity of language and the rigidity of written text. I’m interested in how meaning is lost, deliberately or otherwise, and what’s left when reading is no longer the primary mode of engagement.
Influenced by text art, asemic writing, redaction and graffiti, I deconstruct some of the traditional systems I was originally trained in. Text becomes material, something to be layered, erased, or abstracted, probing the shifting role of the reader, no longer a decoder of language, but a participant in its reinterpretation.
I am as much drawn to Sister Corita Kent’s ‘the word as truth’ as I am William Burroughs’s idea of language being a ‘virus from outer space’. I struggle with language. It’s limited and limiting. I recall an X (Twitter) post where someone stated that ‘text is a bad medium’ for communication. That made me smile.
I was in the sixth cohort of the Vertical Crypto Art Residency in 2023.
@altgnon
2025
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