2020

Graphic Compositions

Framework:
the affectable body
Title:
Graphic Compositions
Year:
2020
Collaborator(s):
Shobun Baile
Material:
mixed media
Technique:
digital print
Dimensions:
variable
Production:
commissioned by the 2020 Fotofest Biennial
Image:
digital files, in order of appearance: Graphic Composition #2, 1#, and #3
Credit:
published in African Cosmologies: Photography, Time and the Other (Catalogue)

Adapting Wassily Kandinsky’s color theory and compositional principles in his book Über das Geistige in der Kunst, the Graphic Compositions translate Noam Chomsky’s address to an unseen audience into digital colors and primary shapes. In magenta, cyan, and yellow, the statement “I gather there are some people out behind that blackness there, but If I don’t look you in the eye is because I don’t see you… all I see is the blackness” is rendered as a square, circle, and triangle, foregrounding the interplay between text, form, and color.