Video: Ampersand. Connecting wor (l) ds: bright works by Kirsten McCree
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The usual icon that makes it easier to write the text in the Latin alphabet and now and then flickers in the names of foreign companies - the ampersand - was awarded a cycle of works by the Canadian artist Kirsten McCree. Bright fragments, united by the ampersand sign, represent a kaleidoscope of impressions and thoughts, which are captured by the brush of a foreign illustrator.
Artist Kirsten McCrea lives and works in Montreal. She not only creates works of art herself, but is also the founder and editor of the Papirmasse art subscription (for $ 5 a month, subscribers get a work by a contemporary author). The artist not only dreams of having enough pictures and prints in every home, but also brings this blessed time closer to the best of her ability.
Kirsten McCree is concerned with the problem of continuity and cultural memory, interested in the confrontation between the mass culture and the underground. The myths that exist in society do not go unnoticed by her either. The artist's color illustrations are published in magazines and exhibited in Canadian galleries.
Ampersand, who has received a series of illustrations by Kirsten McCree, has an interesting biography. The monogram, which comes from the Latin union "et" ("and"), is considered one of the first shorthand signs. It was used to record the speeches of Cicero and for about a hundred years held out in the English alphabet, closing it.
The works of Kirsten McCree are as colorful as the biography of the ampersand. They embody the main function of this sign - to unite objects and phenomena of the same order. Both that, and another, and the third have the right to life. Everything is equal and equally beautiful: "God, nature, destiny, providence, kings and spaniels."
In the Cyrillic text, ampersand is an eternal foreigner, a sign of borrowing. Apparently, they will remain, because we have our own wonderful union "and", which is much easier and faster to write than an exotic overseas squiggle with the beautiful name "ampersand".
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