Basic Information
Artist(s):
Title:
Black Elk, Rocktown Scrolls
Medium:
Surface Size:
27.5 x 21 in.
Framed Size:
34.5 x 29.5 in.
Date Created:
2006
Inventory #:
Verostko-2006-01
Description
signed and dated lower right in graphite
description from direct communication with the artist:
“Text quoted from Black Elk Speaks, Chapter III: The Great Vision – Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all and round that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
The Rocktown Scrolls are named after the Pennsylvania coalfield “patch” where I grew up dreaming wondrous dreams while sliding down the ash- dumps. They present colorful algorithmic drawings accompanied with passages selected from a wide range of literature and culture. The passages are written with algorithmically generated glyphs clothing the alphabet with a unique set of linear forms. These coded glyph forms invite us to ponder the nature of language while the larger colored forms may be savored as cyberflowers floating in unbounded space.”
Detail images of the work
an artist’s book containing an excerpt of writings from George Boole’s: “The Laws of the Operations of the Human Mind”, with illustrations by Roman Verostko (with Alice Wagstaff assisting), and a preface by Roger F. Malina printed and published by: Saint Sebastian Press, Minneapolis, 1990. text from the justification page: “All the illustrations in this […]
an artist’s book containing an excerpt of writings from George Boole’s: “The Laws of the Operations of the Human Mind”, with illustrations by Roman Verostko (with Alice Wagstaff assisting), and a preface by Roger F. Malina printed and published by: Saint Sebastian Press, Minneapolis, 1990. text from the justification page: “All the illustrations in this […]
an artist’s book containing an excerpt of writings from George Boole’s: “The Laws of the Operations of the Human Mind”, with illustrations by Roman Verostko (with Alice Wagstaff assisting), and a preface by Roger F. Malina printed and published by: Saint Sebastian Press, Minneapolis, 1990. text from the justification page: “All the illustrations in this […]
signed and dated lower right in graphite signed, titled, and dated lower right corner on the reverse in graphite “used for a FAX show @ Bilboa First of the Sun Canticles with gold leaf” inscribed lower left corner on the reverse in graphite
