Grid Ghost is an experimental type design project and part of my ongoing text installation practice. Through the experimental creation, stacking, and layout of a set of types, this project attempts to use the 'ghosts in the corners of the dusty light' as a metaphor for distorted information suspended above the real.
Under a power structure with a ‘censoring-passing’ system, text is based on a rule that removes or modifies information that does not conform to the rule. Thus these otherwise existing pieces of information become ghosts. This text installation project is based on an experimental typography that features a mosaic of blocked messages and images of ghosts as the main visual elements. Even if the shape of the letter is not entirely apparent up close, it is possible to add the full message from a distance. Letters are projected on organic sites with irregular shapes, thus experimenting with morphing to unrecognisable boundaries.
Under a power structure with a ‘censoring-passing’ system, text is based on a rule that removes or modifies information that does not conform to the rule. Thus these otherwise existing pieces of information become ghosts. This text installation project is based on an experimental typography that features a mosaic of blocked messages and images of ghosts as the main visual elements. Even if the shape of the letter is not entirely apparent up close, it is possible to add the full message from a distance. Letters are projected on organic sites with irregular shapes, thus experimenting with morphing to unrecognisable boundaries.
