Retired Script
16” x 9.5” x 2”
In Retired Script, a semicircle of typewriter arms recalls the rhythm of lost language—mechanical, musical, and deeply human. Framed in weathered pigment and disintegrating script, the piece invites viewers to consider the technologies that carry our words and the ways those words persist, distort, or vanish. It’s a visual elegy for the tangible tools of expression.
16” x 9.5” x 2”
In Retired Script, a semicircle of typewriter arms recalls the rhythm of lost language—mechanical, musical, and deeply human. Framed in weathered pigment and disintegrating script, the piece invites viewers to consider the technologies that carry our words and the ways those words persist, distort, or vanish. It’s a visual elegy for the tangible tools of expression.
16” x 9.5” x 2”
In Retired Script, a semicircle of typewriter arms recalls the rhythm of lost language—mechanical, musical, and deeply human. Framed in weathered pigment and disintegrating script, the piece invites viewers to consider the technologies that carry our words and the ways those words persist, distort, or vanish. It’s a visual elegy for the tangible tools of expression.
Materials List:
Typewriter key lever assembly (semi-circular)
Batik-dyed and waxed paper panel on wood
Wood panel backing
Collaged sheet music
Burned/charred wood effects
Distressed black and white pigment
Gears and small metal hardware
Blue plastic beads
A deconstructed typewriter, its curved arms like a fossilized fan of ideas, rests below a batik-textured panel suspended in a sea of fragmented notation and distressed pigment. This piece explores the residue of language—mechanical, emotional, and gestural—as it fades into memory, abstraction, and silence. The ghost of communication hovers just beneath the surface.