Random Mutations series 2004/2024, originally called Counterblast, which was a nod to Marshall McLuhan's 1969 book of the same name, is a visual exploration of the hidden areas of communication, where meaning and intent breaks down, becomes vague, misconstrued or misinterpreted altogether. This series plays in this middle ground of information. It evolves from the deconstruction, graphically, 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 "Invisible Archeology" or "McLuhan Was Right" is manipulated in a graphics program, manually altering the type, subtractively, or additively, to the point that it becomes illegible graphic elements. Sometimes what evolves is an outlined, topographic map-like imagery. A "typo-topography". Other times it's an almost architectural manifestation. Ultimately, the fragmented remnants of the letters, the counters and broken serifs, offer a partial message, which conversely becomes the new visual language or dialog within the work. Language from the negation of language. Babel / babble / b Ab... L

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