Wordeater Art

My art practice focuses on the connection between art and language. I’m a multimedia artist whose work is mostly drawing, prints, or installation work. I combine drawing and writing as a form of mark-making, and my favourite art shows the process of creation. I have a very raw and intellectual but playful style of artmaking.

I’m fascinated by language phenomenon, books, found phrases, puns, the evolution of written language, alphabets, fonts, and how the arrangement of a word or phrase can change its meaning.

1984 Cranes

1984 Cranes is an installation of 984 paper cranes folded from the book 1984 by George Orwell. The project is inspired by the Japanese tradition of senbazuru, folding a thousand paper cranes, and compares George Orwell's 1984 with Eleanor Coerr's Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes to discuss themes of war, failure, fragility, and security.

Semantic Satiation

Semantic Satiation is the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. The process of using semantic satiation in visual art involves reconfiguring written language into drawings and challenging the tenacity of semantic meaning.

Marks of Meaning: Visual Poetry

Marks of Meaning: Visual Poetry is a series of visual poetry pieces created digitally and printed on 24 x 36 bond paper. There are limited prints available of each.

The series continues an exploration of the aesthetics of line drawing and language, studying how written language offers meaning, or marks of meaning.