Text as art, and in art, has a rich art history of sufficient depth so as to be beyond the scope of this short article here. This article makes a narrow observation to be integrated into the history of text art in further posts: What if an artist uses text…

This brief article starts to explore one artist’s relationship with a diagnosis with the mental illness of bipolar 1. It’s crucial to make a distinction: What I do — what I make — is not about my experience with bipolar 1. Rather: What I do is informed — in part…

“Miss America An Heiress No More, a new 2022 piece by Adam Daley Wilson (72 in x 60 in, oil painted text on new media image on aluminum, courtesy Adam Daley Wilson Artist and ENGAGE Projects Gallery in Chicago) was created by the artist through his rephotographing and altering images…

We All Like To Look Away Sometimes (I Feel So Much Better Now) is a story of survival. The narrative starts with what seems benign: Across cultures, if we have been troubled, we want to feel better — we want to feel relief; we want equanimity restored. Out from discomfort…

A start: Defining text art through all its histories and all its types across cultures, continents, and times. Or: Notwithstanding most art history accounts, text art history was not invented out of thin air in New York in the 1960s nor even in Europe a century before. …

Overview: Online Sources For The History Of Text-Based Art This brief article is a survey of what you’ll find online with respect to the history and origins of text-based art if you search for “text-based art” or “history of text based art” or similar. …

This short article briefly drops a marker as to several potentially new theories that are emerging from my text-based conceptual art and my self-study of its origins within broader art histories. The markers for future research and experimentation are: Are the earliest known cave paintings the original form of text…

Visual intention: Remove brushstroke, remove hand, remove choice from where the curves and lines fall. Symbol intention: Rely only on language symbols — text — to define the curves and lines used. Substantive intention: express, then erase, through layers of writing overwritten, arguments and narratives of the enormous ranges of…

This brief article memorializes observations by two celebrated artists from Mexico, one of letters and one of visual art: The artist’s caused-by-bipolar obsession with writing and over-writing in layers on a surface until the idea is completely out — it is not just the creation of a piece; it is…