Falling LettersBrazilian artist Marina Camargo has a way with letters. Her photographs and installations often feature letter forms in various states of disarray. Her photograph Falling Letters is a perfect visual metaphor for the current state of many aspects of the book world.
Letters in Perspective, 2002
Text Rain. Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv, 1999Text Rain is “an interactive installation in which participants use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical—to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist…Like rain or snow, the letters appears to land on participants’ heads and arms. The letters respond to the participants’ motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall again. The falling text will ‘land’ on anything darker than a certain threshold, and ‘fall’ whenever that obstacle is removed.”
In her 2000 installation Composition Utterback transformed live video into “imagery completely composed of text.”
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