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Visual Diary
My project has morphed into a personal project of mine that I started. The themes that surround this website (authorship, appropriation) still exist within this new one. I am collaborating with a friend of mine who is in the creative writing program at NYU. We came up with this idea of a visual diary. We took a random selection of a diary from a website called www.diaryland.com. Through a process called “erasure”, we edited the diary entries to create our own poems that enter into a relationship with our illustrations because of the similar ways they both attempt to mimic the self expression of the original diary entries. Erasures are created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem.
This is an example erasure that we did:
The poems and illustrations were created to express the emotional descriptions,
disclosures, ellipses, and anti-climax of a daily diary entry.
To mimic the immediateness of a diary entry, the erasure poems and illustrations
were created on the same day as part of the same entry.
Erasures and Visual Art :
Authenticity
Authenticity of the entries: A self-proclaimed diary is predicated on the assumption
that the author is telling the truth. Because we don’t have any knowledge of the facts
of the author’s life, issues of the author’s trustworthiness as a narrator/ author arise.
Erasures are the quintessential example of this unreliability of authenticity since they
are appropriations of already ‘completed’ work.
Re-appropriation:
The visual art , or illustrations, in this case are grounded in the manipulation of material. All the illustrations are
mixed media pieces. They start off as drawings, get painted on, and finally scanned in and digitally manipulated.
The way that it takes colors, images, compositions, and other elements, which already have a visual effect and
combines and transforms them into a new work of art is similar to that of the process of an erasure.
Mimetic
Both the illustrations and the erasures mimic the process of a diary
Both the processes of the illustrations and erasures end up mimicking each other
We are attempting to make the words and images mimic each other, making it difficult for the viewers to consider them
separately.
Prototype of what the book could possibly look like:
Here are some actual erasure and illustration pairings:
The Father
Short film
Director FLA
Line Producer NANA
Scenario, Editor, 3d artist FLA
2d artists FLA, Joe
Designers FLA, BOO
Music The Black Skirts (Dientes)
Klaus Haapaniemi is a Finnish designer whose illustrations reference folklore with both Slav and Japanese influences.
