figure/ground

The starting point for an experimental work of writing, figure/ground is a two-minute edited video recording of my hands preparing a lithography stone. Featuring as a central element in the text, I began the process of writing by playing and re-playing this video, whilst attempting to transcribe its content. From this slow practice of listening, remembering and writing, the narrative took shape as a correspondence between the virtuality of a re-imagined past, the phenomenological present and a process of language in the making. Prompted by this method, the video figure/ground ultimately became the protagonist for a transdisciplinary encounter between lithographic sounds and words, and the enigmatic subject of a lyrical journey through ambiguous audio, visual and linguistic environments.

The full text is available to read as Litho-phonic Worlds in chapter two of my Phd. thesis 'Writing on Stone: the generative intersection between language and lithography' (2024). This video is figure 19.