“I took a forgotten novel found by chance. I mined, and undermined its text to make it
yield alternative stories, erotic incidents, and surreal catastrophes, which lurked within
its wall of words. I replaced with visual images the text I’d stripped away. A Humument
began to tell, amongst other memories, dreams and reflections, the sad story of Bill
Toge, one of love’s casualties.” (Tom Phillips on Humument)
yield alternative stories, erotic incidents, and surreal catastrophes, which lurked within
its wall of words. I replaced with visual images the text I’d stripped away. A Humument
began to tell, amongst other memories, dreams and reflections, the sad story of Bill
Toge, one of love’s casualties.” (Tom Phillips on Humument)
Zine pages created from generative art and texts from various philosophers to reconstruct narrative. These abstract illuminations cover themes of mental prisons imposed by tangible thought, and the way thought can have the capacity to both punish and liberate the thinker.
This is also in regards to drawing correlations between the mystical, or that in which we can not see, and the immediate observable world.
Source texts:
Ways of seeing, John Berger
Nietzsche, The Parable of a Madman
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
