THUNDERCLAPS : A Visual/Verbal Storm Calligraphy and Drawing by Thomas Ingmire Text selections from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake San Francisco, CA, 2014 Unique Book 12” x 13.5”, 24 pages Including cover, Acrylic on Mylar with gold leaf illumination THUNDERCLAPS in FINNEGANS WAKE are invented words that are 100 letters long. Joyce included ten; the final one was actually made up of 101 letters. These “words,” which are wonderful to read out loud, interplay with abstract calligraphic marks created in response to selections of music and readings that are part of the Wayword and Wordsigns project. The drawings in the book were inspired by creatures depicted in the Book of Kells. Aside from the Irish connection with Joyce and his reference to the book, Kells reminds us of the magic of the written word to stand merely as a visual image. Like the Book of Kells, the book invites the viewer to experience its visual splendor, and in reading, to the “hear” the music of the language. |
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FINNEGAN'S FACEBOOK Calligraphy and Drawing by Thomas Ingmire Text selections from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake San Francisco, CA, 2014 Unique Book 6" X 7 3/4", 38 pages housed in a plexiglass box While visiting the Bancroft Library on the UC Berkeley campus, I came across a manuscript which had a collection of delightful Blackletter capitals that were decorated with amusing drawings of faces. This became the inspiration for the November 2014 Cafe Chronicles book. The large capitals were initially created in my studio followed by the drawings which were made each morning at Cafe Puccini. The text passages, selections from Finnegans Wake, were added back in the studio. This book is the closest I come to having anything to do with the real world FACEBOOK (thumbs down).
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