Tanks & Tablecloths: Chapter One
Copy Us
H O M E
Welcome
Between Everyday & Arcane
Inside/Outside: A Book in Thirty Parts
The Essence of All Things
In Absentia
British Library Fellowship
Memorial to the Named & the Faceless
Once More, with Feeling
L I Z Z I E - R I D O U T
P O R T F O L I O
S K E T C H B O O K
É T U D E S  ~  A - P R E S S
C O N T A C T
Women's Studio Workshop Residency
The Architecture of Conversation
Writer's Black / Writer's Block

Tanks & Tablecloths: Chapter Two
A Polychromy in Black
Portable Document
Various Writings

Whilst trying to design a device that could write words whilst destroying them simlultaneously, I instead created a device that aids those who suffer from the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with the act of writing. Writer's Black / Writer's Block is formed from an English dictionary, burned in the absence of air, to create charcoal, for making words made from words.

 

Writer's Black / Writer's Block is both full of language and yet also mute. Writer's Black / Writer's Block has the potential to be verbose, yet until it is tapped, remains silent. Writer's Black / Writer's Block is latent – or choked – speech in solid form.

 

This charcoal is currently being developed into a number of writing implements and the images that you see here document the initial stages of this process.

 

  Thank you to Neil Stevenson at Trelissick Garden for helping me turn my dictionaries into charcoal.        

 

Writer's Black / Writer's Block [Burned in the Absence of Air]

  Writer's Black / Writer's Block [Burned in the Absence of Air]   Writer's Black / Writer's Block [Burned in the Absence of Air]   Original dictionaries before being burned in the absence of air   A Spoonful of Dictionary [Crushed Dictionary]   A Heap of Dictionary [Ground Dictionary]   A Heap of Dictionary [Ground Dictionary]

Death of a Pencil