Artwork > [WORD + image] artworks

How does a painting mean what it means?
What are the possibilities; what are the limitations?

In the experimental paintings shown below, two strategies are explored. In one: an invented alphabet encodes a text. Doing so, words gain additional layers of emotion and meaning. And, doing so, the painting expands in its range of possibilities. In the second: an image pairs with a short text to produce a new type of visual poem.

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Stormy Night
Stormy Night
Digital ink on canvas
LOVELY LOVERS LOVING
LOVELY LOVERS LOVING
Digital ink on canvas (unique)
90" (h) x 46" (w)
oooooooooo BABY BABY
oooooooooo BABY BABY
Inkjet print with acrylic facemount
11" (h) x 16" (w) x 1" (d)
MLK
MLK
Digital ink on canvas (unique)
52" (h) x 42" (w)
I Love You. Perhaps
I Love You. Perhaps
Ink and thread on canvas
22" (h) x 18" (w)
Pledge of Allegiance [spanish]
Pledge of Allegiance [spanish]
Ink on paper
40" (h) x 60" (w)
Manifesto (surrealist)
Manifesto (surrealist)
Digital ink on canvas
69.5" (h) x 53.5" (w)
Drama
Drama
Unique Digital ink on canvas
48" (h) x 38" (w)
After James Wright. Black
After James Wright. Black
Ink on canvas.
61" (h) x 54" (w)
After James Wright. interior rendering
After James Wright. interior rendering
Inkjet print with acrylic facemount
A unique artwork that combines references from two very different realms.
Green Bay Packers + Matisse
Digital ink on paper
18" (h) x 26" (w)


A word about the INVENTED DIGITAL ALPHABETS:


Some of the invented alphabets incorporate pictorial images. The first letter of the name applied to identify the picture signals the letter.
This strategy, known as the Acrophonic principle, is central to our development of writing in human civilization.