Description
Window Poems Two is a group of interventions on windows for the exhibition, L’ombre et la forme at La Salle Alfred-Pellan, Ville de Laval. In the work paper pulp letters are couched directly onto a window in two sections with vowels in the upper part and consonants in the lower section.
Statement
I was interested in how vowels could be a reference to the air necessary for the formation of these letters in our mouths, while using either the tongue, teeth or lips. the sounds of consonants are made by the stopping of air. This suggests that in speaking, the vowels rise into the sky and the consonants fall to the ground. I was also surprised to learn that some ancient texts (Egyptian and Hebrew) omitted the writing of vowels in their texts altogether.
Karen Trask, 2025