Chris Ferebee: random mutations series

Random Mutations series // 2004-2005

About //

These are a selection of prints are from a series called Random Mutations. This type-based series evolved from the "deconstruction" of a word or phrase (which typically is the title of each piece) to produce a new visual language out of that process. For example, a word or a phrase like "Bedridden Icons" or "McLuhan Was Right" is manipulated in a graphics program, converting the type to a vector-based element which allows it to be manually altered. They are tweaked, stretched and deleted to the point that they become illegible, graphic elements. Sometimes what evolves is an outlined, topographic map-like imagery, or almost schematic and architectural. Sometimes it's even "organic", where the image seems to posses natural form, structure and volume.

Ultimately, the fragmented remnants of the letters, counters and broken serifs offer a partial message, which conversely becomes the new visual language or dialog among the work - a language from the negation of language. .....or something like that.

Related work / SuperCollider series

American Teeth, 2004
study for silk screen on canvas