Textonpracticefinal2023

Claudio's Text on practice

Screen version:

Layer 1: Actual Text on practice (1500 words)

Layer 2: Annotations

Layer 3: Images

Print version:

Text: A4 tracing paper, unbinded

Images: 9.5x5.5cm, inserted through the pages in no specific order

A few words on why I made it this way:

I wanted it not to be just a description of my practice, but also to give an impression of it - of my own way of writing, thinking, working . A fragmented, layered, scattered, cumulative way, whose sense is to be found in the continuous, recursive re-editing of the pieces in always unstable, unsure wholes. A plain text pasted on a wiki page did not feel ok. The medium is the message right? Tracing paper comes from my architecture background. I use it to break through the paper surface and give visual depth to the text, layer it. The actual, formatted text on practice is overlayed with extra annotations, few words or

Images come from an uncurated collection of screenshots, taken over the past months because in one way or another resonated with the processes I was going through. I did not want to pinpoint them to one or another bit of text, but rather let the reader guess associations.