Photospeaking and/or Photowriting
"ASL photocalligraphy Orihon" by Jolanta Lapiak
5.75" x 5.25", 16 pages
2007 (photocalligraphy), 2008 (japanese accordion book)
The term Orihon is a Japanese type of scroll book by folding the scroll into an accordion or concertina. Ori means fold and hon means book.
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ASL Photocalligraphy Orihon is an accordion consisting of the images of ASL movements captured on the camera. Each ASL phrase comes with a translation in written English.
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Jolanta Lapiak
Digital photograph, up to 13 x 19 inches
Halifax, Canada.
The Photocalligraphy series depict a trace of text in Ameslan or ASL (American Sign Language). The artist translates a selected English text into Ameslan or ASL and captures the movement of ASL into a digital image. This process refers to Derridean arche-writing and grammatology.
Photocalligraphy of ASL trace: there is no outside of the text (derrida)
Photocalligraphic trace of ASL text: poetry performance
Photocalligraphic trace of ASL text: poetry performance
Calligraphic trace of ASL text: "a splendid flash of concrete poetry"
"a splendid flash of concrete poetry"
diversity and unity
-- jolanta a. lapiak
form is emptiness; emptiness is form (The Heart Sutra)
Sun sheds a tear;
Rain burns.
-- jolanta a. lapiak
Great gift idea for a baby shower.
Photocalligraphic trace of ASL text: my sweet baby
Photocalligraphic trace of ASL text: my sweet baby