Disegno in Orvieto
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By combining layers of processes, methods, and mediums, I build this "book" out of my interactions with the Italian town of Orivieto. It incorporates:
✶ A written piece of prose about the town of Orvieto.
✶ All twenty-six letters of the alphabet found within nonalphabetic objects and photographed throughout the town.
✶ Said alphabetic images carved into linoleum and block printed.
✶ Ink and paint, projected, traced, and printed images, canvas, ribbon, blood, sweat, tears.
Orvieto’s eyes rise behind lines of glass panes, doorframes, spectacles masking crow’s feet. Streets etched in skin connect lip crease to leather cheek after a thousand Winstons haled out and in.
Man-made made man; with shapes reflecting, reflexing, perplexing another’s.
When moon comes Saints succumb to werewolf pleasures, defecting from their iconographication stations. Gold orbs roll o’er the cobblestone moors. Cathedrals nearly fall from grace, their walls lacking divine face.
Holy place made holier; joy of God holds hands with Anglo Saxon tool of man.
At the core lies nothing more than nothing less than childhood tests. Square hole, round peg, triangles in triplets. Bone of my own infancy’s innocence.
Is it the inhabitants of Orvieto whose hands camber toward Heaven, or does the ladder descend from above?
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