PARCHMENT & PALIMPSEST
Process based, mixed media and animation 2007. Work in progress.
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Belenus Palimpsest(stretched on wooden frame), Animal hide and ink. Goldfactory project space, 2007.
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Parchment & Palimpsest is a series of artworks inspired by the parchmenteer's process of 'palimpsestry'- the scraping away of old documents and re-use of old parchment.
With each artwork, and accompanying film, a sequence of likenesses and/or names of British dieties are written onto stretched parchment, then scraped away. This proccess is repeated on the same spot with each new addition by a subsequent deity 'over-writing' the last.
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The 23 Names of Belenus (film still), Animal hide and ink, 2007.
Remnants of the old characters remain but continue to degrade with each scraping.
Text used progresses chronologically from 'Roman Shorthand' to 'The Black Letter'- the last British calligraphic script before the printing press.
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As part of this series, blackboards have also been created that undergo a similar processes to the palimsest. The video of the process is then projected back onto the board itself.
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Bel Blackboard. Blackboard, chalk, video projection. Goldfactory Project Space, 2007.
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Belenus Palimpsest(stretched on wooden frame), Animal hide and ink, 2007.
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