After Strange Gods

by Kenneth R Windsor

“Words have shadows––hidden meanings or ambiguous associations that refract how words are understood. While shadows of the spoken word are fleeting, those of the written word have permanence, and power to subvert, augmented by historical association, cultural context and visual delivery. My work interrogates this subversion; how the mismatch between intent and understanding enabled the systemization of these shadows, some insidious (such as racism), some inspirational, (such as written arts). By exploring the letterform and the structures it populates––word, sentence, page, book, screen––combined with the hyper-vivid color palette of modern media, my work queries the visual and morphological contradictions manifest in these shadows. The written world’s dereliction of duty has widened the chasm between word and meaning.”