vispro. Visual Prose.

Nico : I find it’s true, letters arrange themselves - it’s never a word first. They take time, they take their time, one letter at a time. A word is built, it doesn’t simply appear. We have forgotten, we live our lives at such velocity that words emerge fully formed, an effortless fact. But it is not that way, alphabets are the history of human sound applied visually. A word is considered a convenience, a formation of letters that represents an object. Letters are the construction and compositional material of societal communication. The ingredients, if you will, of talking, of writing, of thinking, of getting by in our everydayness.   This piece consists of layers of the phrase “letters arrange themselves - it’s never a word first.” One on top of the other till meaning is obliterated, till the words break open and the letters are released. The words explode and letters find themselves liberated to explore their original visual and/...

Untitled Piotr:   Thinking about something that could be vispro, I came up with the idea of pixelizing   some text and putting it above some background. I did the pixelization in gimp, and   the background image was created on deepdremgenerator . So I concentrated on   "looking at prose" - prose often uses rectangles as a form (I guess it comes from     putting rectangular pieces together in standard books). I made three attempts before   deciding on using this one. Comment: This image  certainly reads as prose narration - and yes, in studying THE BOOK and its general shape as a cultural object, rectangle is the most common - and is therefore considered to be one of the most STABLE shapes (unlike the triangle for example which is more dynamic, and therefore more unstable). Certainly a lot to be explored in this - something we really take for granted. The background gives the impression of stained glass windows and perhaps offers a visual aid in a...

 or, vispro. What is that?  I am seeking to explicate some parameters in which to frame various artworks one could term   vispro   and   through visual examples   elucidate a philosophy for the existence of   vispro .     Through the use and discussion of unusual and everyday examples of   vispro ,  I wish to test if   vispro   can exist within a valid theoretical framework.  I intend using   the   Liber Linteus  (a linen book) otherwise known as the   linen book of Zagreb to   typify a physical manifestation of   vispro . It is no longer intact as   Mihajlo  Barić unwrapped the relic, but the photograph below (date unknown) would exemplify the embodiment of  vispro.  The mummy of Zagreb with fragments of the Liber Linteus ( http://www.geocities.ws/jackiesixx/caere/linteus.htm ) date of photograph unknown.