Text installation

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Pseudonymous Indian street artist DAKU recently installed an immersive text-based work in Panjim, Goa. Placed along 31st January Road, a fishnet structure suspends letters above pedestrians. The region’s abundant sunlight pours through to cast shadows on the street, spelling out tropes about the passage of time. Some of the phrases include, “Time works wonders. TimeContinue reading "Sunlight Casts Shadows of Phrases Exploring Theories of Time in a Street Art Installation by DAKU"

Welcome to the neighborhood. The neighborhood is a poem.Poems are traditionally intimate, two-dimension entities, creating a single channel from author to reader. As the academic consideration and craft-basis of poetry has become increasingly emphasized…

Today's Observer Review included a photo of a piece in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park by Jaume Plensa (whose website is here), an artist born in Barcelona in 1955 and now working in France, Spain and the USA. The image caught my eye because if shows part of a large sculpture of a human form, made entirely out of capital letters in a sort of mesh, made of metal. The YSP exhibition website is here. A Guardian article about his work is here. Lots more image, and interesting analysis of his works…

trevor wheatley and cosmo dean are best known for embedding typography — ‘all good,’ ‘bless,’ ‘¯_(ツ)_/¯,’ — in public, natural environments...

Henri Cole on the experience of having his own poetry projected onto landscapes and buildings by the artist Jenny Holzer.