I chose to research the conceptual artist, Mel Bochner. Mel Bochner studied how to use text as the subject of his artwork. He uses language with strong meaning that evokes strong emotions and feelings from the viewer. He also played with the idea of color and how it affects the viewers interpretation of the text displayed in his work. He displays the text in rows in left to right, up to down orientation.  I chose to recreate his piece, "Language is not Transparent," as well as incorporate the techniques from other works. In his piece, the text is printed over and over. It is easy to read in places but gets very hard to read where the texts overlap. I created my piece using Bochner's theory of color and the technique of placing the text in rows. I chose random words in my paper that were loaded with meaning and printed them over and over and over so that they overlapped, causing it to be difficult to read. 


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