From Stone To Clay To Butter, Lily Petch
£9.00
New writing by Lily Petch. 24 pages.
Lily Petch trained at The Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her practice ruminates upon the capacity writing has to outlive the human form, implying inscription to remain as the last marker of personal essence. She is informed contextually by the history of language systems, particularly the shift from proto-sumerian pictograph to codified signs of logo syllabic cuneiform. This research takes material form in Petch’s practice through book-centric installations, wax cylinder sound recording, photography, bookbinding and poetry.
The pamphlet compiles representations of her interest in pictographic language, from researching the early stages of Proto-cuneiform pictograph. This initial evidence of a written script, stemming from image representations of numerical units and entities led her to look into alternative pictorial representations of language. Examples of concrete/pictographic poetry that influenced this pamphlet include the works of Sheiichi Niikuni and Anna Mendelssohn
