Kathryn Zazenski
Through my work I explore perceived structure and the duality of the vital yet completely arbitrary nature of the systems present in our lives. I am interested in how culture influences the way we physically and psychologically maneuver through the world, and through employing various methods of making and interacting I explore the roles that culture, tradition, and ethos play in the way we communicate and interpret relationships. My practice is heavily research driven and is a result of continual travel and exploration into sociological, psychoanalytical, spiritual, and relational ideologies.
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Same body of work.
With this series I am exploring a new visual system for the
written word. I am creating the opportunity to re-see and
experience these symbols in new ways that highlights their
inherent fragility and mutability.
To create this body of 160 drawings I developed a list of human
emotions and character traits and paired them each with an
opposing sentiment. The pairs were then plotted on a traditional
x-y graph where numerical values are replaced by the English
alphabet. The values are arranged both in traditional order along
one axis (a,b,c…z) and then according to frequency of occurrence
along the other (e,i,a…z). Frequency was calculated from the list
of 320 unique words used in this series. The words are then
plotted one letter at a time and are connected by a line in the
order that they assume to form the word. The word pairings are
plotted together, traced, and the image is then mirrored and
transferred onto paper to create the final drawing. Titles
indicate the word pairings.