Jess Richards Un/tellable Stories - An Essay in Images
and Lists. These images and process lists are part of
an ongoing hybrid art/creative writing project. This
essay demonstrates part of the project which explores
storytelling and layered texts. When text is visually
layered the reading process becomes inventive. “Where
there is writing – or something that looks like writing
– there is always something to read. Resistance in one
layer might re-route reading to another.” (Hall 2013, 88)
This essay in images and lists shows new and old stories
being written and hidden. Untellable stories are printed
repeatedly on vintage book pages, printed text is removed
on coils of masking tape to make blank pages
for new stories. An essay about ghosts is layered on tracing paper pages. A short story called ‘The Three Dresses’ transforms into a ‘Drawn Story’ when each letter is linked to another with ink threads.
The story disappears
in the threads when all the story pages are overprinted
onto one page.
The images reveal untellable and tellable
stories, the materiality of text, altered books and pages.
The organisation and detritus of the writing process
are also explored during this part of this project.
The process lists are an invitation to participate in
storytelling and untelling.
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)