Pamela Dodds
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                                                  Chronique Analytique / Analytic Chronicle

                                                  a collaborative work with Québec printmaker Diane Fournier

                                                  2012

                                                   

                                                  An Abecedary

                                                  A bilingual, cross-cultural exploration of language

                                                  Serigraphy with sculptural box

                                                   

                                                  Une abecedaire

                                                  Une exploration bilingue et interculturelle du langue

                                                  Serigraphie avec une boîte à la main

                                                   

                                                  Each letter is represented by a French and English word of same or similar meaning. Diane and I wanted to make imagery about experience, ideas, and perspectives, so we chose nouns for concepts, qualities, and states of being - not things. To create the work, we each separately drew images in response to the chosen words in a spontaneous, stream-of-consciousness manner and later combined the images through serigraphy – Diane’s loose abstractions, most, but not all, printed in colour, together with my line drawings, including hands, eyes and figures, most, but not all, printed in black. The result is a single, layered, complex image to represent each word.

                                                   

                                                  To contain the unbound pages, we built an ambiguously shaped box resembling perhaps, a brain, a cloud, or the amorphous shape of language itself.