30% Acrylico, writing
& skateboarding
from july 8 to july 14 2003 at the Museo
di Roma in Trastevere.
Cured by Cecilia Nesbitt.
Introduction by Jon for the book Propaganda, the catalog of 30% Acrilico.
According to ancient Egyptians, the Name was the essence of a being.
For them, To give a name was like nurturing a being and allowing it
to develop. Writing ones name, is like a constant redefinition
and reinterpretation of oneself, a continuous evolution of the concept
of what you are, what you think you are, and what you want to be.
Man learns through a process of repetition of letters, words, thoughts,
ideas, concepts,events. The more the context of a word repeats in
your life, the more it grows, and that word acquires more meaning.
Repeating your name is like understanding your own meaning, like constantly
creating and recreating who I am. The study of letters, of their shapes
and composition is really a deeper study of communication and the
alphabet, and of the repetition of those unconscious mechanisms that
allow the creation of words and thoughts which will make up Knowledge.
Letters are like the atoms of our thinking. Letters have an identity
of their own, and to see only the meaning of words in the words of
a sentence is like looking at a crowd and ignoring the individuals
that make up the crowd. This is one of the main motivations for the
diffusion of your Identity in the metropolis: Feeling like an individual
in a society that increasingly tends to make you lose your sense of
individuality.
What are letters?What do they represent? Each letter corresponds to
a sound of the movement of your lips and tongue, and the exhaling
of air. A letters Identity is found in the relationship between
the shape of the letter, its sound, the movement of the mouth necessary
to produce that sound; and the deep relationship with the identities
of the other letters. The creation of sound is symbolic of the continuous
recreation of oneself. So letters are the expression of Self. The
Name is like the simplest arrangement of letters to describe your
being.
Ive always wondered why names always reflect so well, the person
who has that name. It is the parents who give the name to their son,
their creation. A person cannot be without a name, for he wouldnt
have a personality. Giving a name is like the last act of creation,
it completes a being. Like I already said, that giving a name is like
nurturing and allowing a being to develop.
Movement is the secret to Knowledge. Being still is equivalent to
being a point: motionless, absolute inertia. Without movement there
cannot be any communication. When a point moves it traces a line.
To move in the physical world gives us a chance to see from other
points of view, thus to gain knowledge. I have already said that knowledge
is made up of thoughts which are made up of words which are in turn
composed of letters. Letters in their graphic form all start from
a point that moves on a surface, which is a reflection of the movement
of the mouth that produces the sound of the letters. Language is the
movement of your Self in the attempt to know itself and its surroundings.
The writer moves around the metropolis and communicates his identity
to gain knowledge and to be known. Graffiti done on a moving surface
like a public transport system brings the work into a new context
of space-time movement, becoming alive; the speed at which it moves
and travels becomes part of its very nature
It is this special property of writing that moves, that determines
the real expressive power of the Name as a means to expand and spread
ones knowledge.
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