A lot of V. Note ideas wither because they are just one little thought or artwork, and I don’t have it in me to flush them out into a complete chapter. I’ve been thinking I should post more of these single notes. Here’s one: an automatic writing by Bruno Leyval.
Automatic Writing/Drawing: writing or drawing produced without conscious intention
The part of this I’m ignorant of, the bit that makes my head tilt here, is the typing above the signature. I found this picture on the internet, and I can’t figure out if this is part of the piece or not. It adds a stamp of officialness to the scribbles, and again to the only slightly more intentional scrib-signature, and I notice the placement very nicely breaking the right side boundary, but is the typing part of the piece? Or a label added for instruction? Something else? I imagine the piece without the typing, and I don’t like it as much. It really does make the signature more of a legitimate and serious giggle.
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Automatic writing by Bruno Leyval
A lot of V. Note ideas wither because they are just one little thought or artwork, and I don’t have it in me to flush them out into a complete chapter. I’ve been thinking I should post more of these single notes. Here’s one: an automatic writing by Bruno Leyval.
Automatic Writing/Drawing: writing or drawing produced without conscious intention
The part of this I’m ignorant of, the bit that makes my head tilt here, is the typing above the signature. I found this picture on the internet, and I can’t figure out if this is part of the piece or not. It adds a stamp of officialness to the scribbles, and again to the only slightly more intentional scrib-signature, and I notice the placement very nicely breaking the right side boundary, but is the typing part of the piece? Or a label added for instruction? Something else? I imagine the piece without the typing, and I don’t like it as much. It really does make the signature more of a legitimate and serious giggle.
Other artists that come to mind: Cy Twombly, Mark Tobey, André Masson, Henri Michaux
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