This project was created during my semester abroad at the Design Academy in 2007. For this project we were asked to take a quote or textual item from a famous artist or designer and create a time-based typographic study. I chose Marlene Dumas for her remarkable affintiy for language, which plays in important part in her work and is frequently used as an autonomous vehicle of her expression. This text entitled, Models Wait (Need TV), was written in conjunction with her series of drawings and watercolors of fashion models taken from old images and magazine spreads.

Dumas once said about her paintings, "My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information)."

My typographic study is with gouache and marker painted throughout a large photography magazine. I chose to use this as my medium to pay homage to her source(s) of inspiration as well as a vehicle for a stop motion movie, turning and manipulating the pages as transitions from one word to the next. In many cases I manipulated her original text using homophones and homonyms (words that sound the same but have different meanings), in order to create puns and deceive the reader or to suggest multiple meanings. In doing so I hoped to give some of my own interpretations as well as create an alternate way of reading the text.

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