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I just published my first book: PL8s
I used to make artist books which were generally little think pieces on very specific subject areas. I made books using drawings, photocopies and etchings but gave up cause it all got too expensive. I plan to revive my book practice this year since I discovered self publishing service Blurb. I have made one other book already with my boyfriend and housemates for a friend's 50th birthday called Hereford Street and Surrounds.
This book PL8s is a collection of car number plates. Why? For the hell of it and because I love making collections and lists of things. I also think number plates are the original source of the shorthand language we use in SMS and IM messages and that before we chuckle at how clever and beyond 2000 we are we should take time and reflect on older sources of short hand language. Enjoy.
<div style="text-align-left;"><div style="display:block;">PL8S by Erietta Sapounakis | BOOK INFO</div></div>
Andrew Liversidge Nothing for Nothing, 2009, Rsolyn Oxley 9 Group Show
From the press release:
A long-term relationship ends. For some years prior to this, as part of a systematic strategy of recuperation against an insipient sense of loss, Liversidge transcribed by hand every text message he received on his mobile phone. Consequently, it turned out he had every message she had ever sent him. To illustrate fluctuations in velocities – tensions and conditions of equilibrium – within the relationship, he plotted on a graph the number of syllables he received from her each day by SMS for the duration of their time together. The data was then extrapolated into three-dimensions and placed in the gallery in the form of a sculptural bar chart. Nothing for nothing is over two metres high and almost seven metres long and is constructed out of approximately two thousand pulp romance novels. A tragic tale of boy-loves-girl-boy-loses-girl which escalates to a dramatic end is graphically illustrated via another failed relationship – the relationship between empirical data and its supposedly rational system of interpretation.
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