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STATEMENT OF WORK
Our languages connect us.
My focus is abstract visual language. I bridge gaps between verbal writing and its visual calligraphic counterparts through asemic writing (a kind of mark making that reflects writing but has no semantic value) and drawing. I draw sentences and paragraphs, poems and sound, as well as abstract comics and graphic novellas.
In conjunction with my drawings I have created numerous visual artist's books, both one-of-a-kind and commercially printed.
I work in series, developing concepts over time.
The "Silent Songs" series (2023) are ink on paper drawings, 29x23" each.
Silence is never silence. And eyes need neither lyrics or sound to hear visual songs. These drawings relate to my book See Songs (https://www.rosaireappel.com/seesongs.html)
"Soundchart" series (2022-3), ink on vintage ledger papers. Traditional music notation codifies specific sound instances in a language that can be read and translated through various musical instruments. My soundchart is not notation but a noticing, a remarking, a potentiality. Sound, filtered through the mind rather than the ears, becomes visual when you think of it.