The individual pieces in this book are tiny visual poems that examine the materiality of visible language and find beauty by looking at that language from unexpected vantage points. Nico Vassilakis has created each of these poems through a sequence of steps that included capturing video of text, editing and modifying that video (which included changing the color), capturing screenshots of the video, and cutting and putting these final pieces together in little diptychs consisting of one rectangle of prepared text atop another. To some degree, the results are the children of NicoÕs important videopoetic work, Concrete: Movies, released in 2005. -Geof Huth
Nico Vassilakis' videos, including images from DIPTYCHS can be found here.
Nico Vassilakis' videos, including images from DIPTYCHS can be found here.