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4 posts tagged synæsthesia
Jamie Lawson - Synæsthesia Text Project 15
Originally posted on it’s all gone potatoes.
Jamie Lawson - Synæsthesia Text Project 14
“And now came this Isabel with that red smear for a mouth…”
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov was a gift from a good friend - the inscription reads, “…the best Russian synæsthete for Jamie and Jacqui…”. I’d somehow never read Nabokov before, and I chose this book to use for this piece as a good excuse to correct that.
I flipped to the page my magical musical process determined, and was floored to find such a comically colour-evocative sentence. I almost didn’t use it, thinking it would be a bit obvious (& therefore difficult), but decided that it was worth pursuing… Later that night I read Wingstroke, the short story that contains the line and the whole thing came together. Naked City’s Grand Guignol soundtracking lent an even more ominous and quietly violent aspect, perfectly twinning the vibe of the story.
This quickly became one of the more expressive pieces so far in the STP series. The dominant reds and blues really took over, not just due to their inherent visual potency, but from the power given them by the words themselves. The words Isabel, red smear & mouth all containing a good proportion of reds & blues, loom large compositionally as well as conceptually.
Below is the letter/colour breakdown – each square corresponds with one of the letters in the phrase (for example: A=blue; N=brown; D=brown &c.). In the final art I try to represent the effect that I perceive from the combination of letters. The initial letter of each word having a pronounced sway over the rest, the secondary colours become hazy echoes.
Originally posted on it’s all gone potatoes.
Jamie Lawson - SYNÆSTHESIA TEXT PROJECT 13
“All these motions meant parts of time and fate.” From Hamlet’s Mill by Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha Von Dechend
Synæsthesia Text Projects are an ongoing series of text-based posters revolving around Jamie’s experience of grapheme (letter/number) - colour synæsthesia.
Grapheme - colour synæsthesia on Wikipedia
Below is the letter/colour breakdown – each square corresponds with one of the letters in the phrase (for example: A=blue; L=light brown; T=orange; H=dark orange; &c.). In the final art I try to represent the effect that I perceive from the combination of letters, the initial letter of each word having a pronounced sway over the rest.
Originally posted on it’s all gone potatoes.
Jamie Lawson - Synæsthesia Text Project 12
“(Toleration has often been absent in the great monotheistic religions, which have tended to) regard non-orthodox beliefs as idolatry, heresy (or apostasy). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions, from the section titled Tolerance.
The Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions has been a pretty handy book over the years. It was required course reading for a Comparative Religion class I was enrolled in at McMaster University but I’m not sure I used it all until after my (rather hasty) departure from institutionalized higher learning. It’s a book I’ve used for similar purposes to this one in the past – that is, randomly selecting a page or topic & using it to stimulate ideas & such… no matter what page you flip to, there’s always some weird stuff. In this case, I think it’s appropriate that it’s the section on (religious) tolerance that I stumble upon – a very timely & relevant connection for me, what with the eminent paganism of the music that played during the poster’s creation and the general distaste for orthodoxy of any sort (not to mention the interest in “idolatry” & “heresy”) here at the Open Window Society… Lots of interesting ideas in here from the get-go.
Synæsthesia Text Projects are an ongoing series of text-based posters revolving around Jamie’s experience of grapheme (letter/number) - colour synæsthesia.
Grapheme - colour synæsthesia on Wikipedia
Below is the letter/colour breakdown – each square corresponds with one of the letters in the phrase (for example: R=green; E=blue; G=green; A=blue; &c.). In the final art I try to represent the effect that I perceive from the combination of letters, the initial letter of each word having a pronounced sway over the rest. Here, the reds and greeny-grey-browns dominate, with a sprinkling of hazy blue.
Originally posted on it’s all gone potatoes
