When brainstorming I tend to have many words running through my head, so I've been listing them in my sketchbook. As I listed words for the word negative, stencil came to mind. A stencil is the perfect 'negative'. Like in photography, the negative is the original or most perfect capturing of the image.Also, the article Jay had us read & discuss in class had me thinking about the beauty & integrity of type & how photography contributed to "the most exact rendering of communication" (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy).
It's interesting to me that as I've been scavenging I have been capturing my findings by way of photography. I feel that it has a lost effect because you weren't there seeing what I was seeing & seeing what surrounded these findings or even getting a sense of it dimensionality. This reflects the statement made in that same article (posted below), because I feel a lost sense of physicality or tangibility in my postings.
"...[Photo]type setting preserved a technique which admittedly guaranteed the purity of the linear effect but ignored the new dimensions of life."
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