h e l l o w o r l d

“i have shared something deeply personal with you- do you know what it is?
will you ever know what it is?”

leading on from my previous project, h e l l o w o r l d explores the use of body parts to interpret the written word in new and creative ways through the medium of visual poetry. inspired by Jon Baldessari’s Binary Code series and Jon Furnival’s Babel series, this project evolved from preliminary attempts at visual poetry to a deeply personal series of works, one that challenged me to create artwork with layers and layers of emotion- something I haven’t done before.
i have created prints and oil paintings, i have spoken into the canvas, bastardised my own work through copying it over and over again, and then bastardised the copies. i have projected onto the work, i have been the projected work, and i have experimented with photography in ways i have not done before.
this project was created during quarantine, and so some photographs are not the highest quality. nevertheless, i hope you enjoy my work :)

1/3, 2020. one of a three part set of polaroid paintings that phonetically spell out 'teeth'. originally painted blue, a chemical reaction with the polaroid base drained all the colour from it.

i'm not meant to be walking, i'm just making my feet move, 2020 (oil on canvas) inspired by something my mother said to me. one of the first instances of body parts being used in my visual poetry.

potato printers phonetically spelling out 'hello world'

hellohellohellohellohelloworld, 2021 (acrylic on paper) a work that was created when cleaning excess paint off of my potato printers. inspired by Jon Furnival's Babel series.

a photograph of the lipstick i originally tried to use for this part of the project, which didn't end up happening. in my opinion, the use of lipstick added a feminine and personal element that i wanted to acknowledge despite not using it in the final pieces.

h e l l o w o r l d, 2021. the final piece of this series; hellohellohellohellohelloworld was scanned and printed out numerous times by an inkjet printer, turning from brown, to green, to black and white as the printer ran out of ink. this piece is also used in my exhibition video as the backdrop, with my lips projected onto it.

a still from my final video, which is unnamed. i held up an ikea desk covered in my prints, while my preliminary lip video played over it silently, with the only sound being that of the projector. click this image to view it.

yuck, 2020 (digital art) one of my first attempts at recreating Jon Baldessari's work.

first attempt at speaking into the canvas.

a close up of hellohellohellohellohelloworld, 2021

mirror sketches of my lips, used to create the stencils for my potato printers.