Nothing

(this is the result of a workshop i took part in to today with the writer and cartoonist Peter Blegvad.

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200911/?read=interview_blegvad

It is a piece of writing with the aim to describe the notion of nothing)

If you write nothing then remove if

you write nothing then remove you

write nothing then remove write

nothing then remove nothing

then remove then

remove remove

.

Sound Sketch

Engines

(lady) "no" ...

a door close

some KEYS jingle

air release es es es hisssssss

a shaking table

rattle squeel rattle tap

a van door closing

bike ticking

tip tap

bus

ENGINE START

motor----------------------- bikes

--------------------------------------------------cars

(man) "alright" - - - - - - - - footsteps

(lady) "You GLAW ai ne"

(man) "OK ill be back in a minute"

Keys jingle

"HUH"

Bag rustle, kicked little, change rattle

3 beeps

Distant dog bark

aeroplane

dragging feet

CARS--------------VANS------------ CARS

plastic thing hitting pavement

(man) "it only takes a few minutes"

Metal - - - - - - tapping - - - - - - Metal

CLINK

squeel

tire through water

BEEPING

(lady) "cough" "cugh uh hugh"

Tap

HIGH PITCH SQUEEL

. . . . . water drip

|memory|

Will you always remember?

Memories can fade

Memories can fracture

Memories can be buried by new memories

Memories can become distorted with other memories

Will you always remember?

Some memories are as fragile as wet newspaper

Some are as firm as the ground

but this does not mean either are safe from loss.

Remember a sound

Remember a face

Remember a place

Remember a feeling

Remember a time

Remember an object

How do you recollect

Through touching an object?

By hearing a voice?

By seeing a place

RHYTHM

1 - pip

2 - dip grey line

2 - daaaap

1

2 - dip BLACK line

2 - daaaap

1

2 - dip grey line

2 - dap

1 - pip

2 - dip BLACK line

2 - dap

movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.

house man in suit

alleyway lamp post

house parked car man in overalls

alleyway lamp post

warehouse dog bark man in suit

house

alleyway lamp post man in suit

house parked car

alleyway lamp post man in overalls

warehouse dog bark

A Grey Room

A room. Standing in the middle were four boxes of a colour matching

the walls surrounding them. There was no visible entrance to the room. A line

was painted in a darkened colour around the upper and lower rims of the walls

and in one corner stood a vertical object stretching from floor to ceiling.

a. room

b. boxes

c. vertical object

From a distance a male form could be seen leaning over the curb from a stance on

the road. The feet had a firm hold on the worn grey tarmac and the corner of an iron

man hole. Blades of grass swept from under the pavement in to the street blowing

towards the ankles of the figure. Standing in an arch form, arms and head hanging

over the concrete paving slabs.

Paving Slab

Rectangle, Sharp corners, chipped edges, chalky, one corner cracked to form a

triangle drifting away from the main. The surface texture flat with a grid of evenly

spaced, raised spherical rounds the size of nail heads. A green stain where a drop of

paint once fell and was trailed by a shoe print. The smell of dust and an old

cigarette butt. Small flecks of dirt and rust drifting across the surface from left to right in

a diagonal.

The pink counters dropped all over the floor. pip pik tik pik tic pap pap tis tic

A Verbal Scrubland

||||||||Verticals - Trees, blades of grass, sticks, straw,

||||||||corrugated iron, plank, post, stems, shadows.

-----Horizontals - Dirt, gravel, dust, water, rust,

-----concrete, cracks, sleepers, mortar, fallen log.

oooooCircles - Sun, leaves, stumps, pebbles, your reflection,

ooooofern, cloud, bottle cap, wire loop, lost coin.

L-O-N-G short

-North-
West East
-South-

left - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RIGHT

Foliage

CIRCLE O

DOT. this word says dot. But it is not a dot. This is a dot .

BLACK / white

B/L/A/C/K G/R/e/y w/h/i/t/e

Happy. sad. ANGRY

Writing

Writing - This is the page of my blog dedicated to my experiments with words.

I began to experiment with writing in 2009 as a new way of generating ideas

for my images. I approach words in a very visual way and I am interested in use

of adjectives, rhythm, colour, dimension, and the visual placement. I hope you

find something here of interest. Josh Armitage.

All words and images copyright to Joshua Armitage

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