![]() ![]() 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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