This is an amalgamation of the grid structure, which represents the institutional restraints that exist within a culture and the ‘natural’ act of asemic writing, full of physicality and emotional expression. Like graffiti, it emulates the word of ‘the street’ versus the word of ‘the establishment’: finance, business, the Law, etc
A hierarchy of structure is embedded in written discourse and language, particularly print. Layers of outmoded historical expressions trap cultural stereotypes in top-down relations eg: ‘high office’, ‘she rose to the top of the tree’; ‘ those at the bottom of society’, ‘he sank so low’. These phrases sprung from theories, which split the elevated status of the mind from the base view of the body, but these ideas are no longer sound.
With images we can attempt to ‘kick away the ladder’, which goes up when a difference in terms becomes a hierarchy in practice. In these images, the words have gone and all that is left is a void, from which something new and more equal can be re-written.
