"the installation of interpretation"
Writing in general is one of those areas where the style is most often dictated by the author + not the viewer. Though there are circumstances that allow the viewer to dictate order, meaning, placement and really change any part of the writing that they want. For creative exercises, often writers will mimic the style of other writers or of a specific piece; the intent at this point is not plagiarism, but to look further at the form and structure of letters upon a page. These moments are often supposed to flatter the writer. That idea combined with the idea of many poets and writers to want the viewer to get whatever message they can out of their work is the accumulation of this installation.
It also appears as a bit of a breakdown of the text, from the first "original" form of Camus' words to the abstracted form based on restructured lines and poetic images of the text. Within this installation are five different interpretations of Camus' first paragraph from A Happy Death. The first two are highly focused on selective word choice display. The third is focused on a "designer gut" placing+overlaying images in Photoshop that appeared to connect. The fourth focused on moving far away from the initial structure of the sentences, hiding the phrases that she felt was most important and even "discarding" phrases/images that were "unnecessary." The fifth focused on restructuring the phrases into a poetic voice that resinated with the designer. Images in color were considered complex/layered and thus added another layer of information by adding color, where as the black and white compositions were less complex.
the "installation" of interpretation.
camus, A Happy Death, original book layout.
layout, focus on pulling out the letter.
layout, focus on pulling out the word.
designer 1's interpretation.
designer 2's interpretation.
designer 3's interpretation.
the presentation.
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