![]() ![]() That germ began its progress with the selection of a book to deface. ![]() ![]() The same germ of an idea results in two vastly different reading experiences. The one emphasizes the elimination of the edited material, the other overcompensates for its absence with a rich visual layer that moves between the figurative and the abstract, the obviously illustrational and the joyously arbitrary. A Humument, on the left, Tree of Codes, on the rightīoth pieces start from the same premise – that by selecting occasional words from a pre-existing text, you can discover (or, more fancifully, excavate) a new narrative from inside the old – but their means of execution are intriguingly different.įoer cuts out the unwanted text – literally so, making holes in the pages – while Phillips paints over it. ![]()
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