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Wednesday 27 August 2008

David Borrington

David Borrington has a unique approach to dissecting bad news. Instead of posting up a reactionary blog entry, the RCA graduate chooses to to slice into a plate of wax-covered copper until the gashes from an intricate, claustrophobic lanscape. Spending approximately 100 hours methodically etching and engraving each story.

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"The work shows the historic grandeur of an unfamiliar civilization; the location, language and temporal context of which is unclear.

The works springs from a passion in language and communication through imagery from my personal difficulties within modern society which result from my Dyslexia and expressive Dyspraxia. The work aims to confuse the viewer in a manner similar to how I would feel and cope in everyday situations for example in a Library, trying to read a bus timetable or a menu in a restaurant. These objects are aesthetically interesting and tactile for me but difficult to comprehend. The work operates in this way, it is highly detailed and familiar in its symbols and imagery, but it is also obscure.

The maps illustrate a landscape and a civilization that is parallel with our own. The books show us a journey through the possible landscape shown in the maps
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Above text taken from David's website which you can check out by just a Click


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