“The moment he began to contemplate that question, however, something like a black column of mosquitoes swirled up in his head. The column grew thicker and denser as it moved to a softer part of his brain, buzzing all the way. Samsa decided to stop thinking.” From Samsa in Love by Haruki Murakami

What does this phrase, as text; look like as a

digital image?

What happens in one’s head, when one

contemplates that question?

A black column, swirling?

Fascinated by this one phrase from Murakami’s

short story, the images grew out of my desire

to see the text (of this phrase) as a visual image

and my ignorance of digital image file code.

Through the process of inserting the letters, the

words, the phrase from the above quote, thus,

manipulating the digital code with the words or

phrases, the transformation of the text to an

image began. 

Buzzing?

Although letters and words and phrases can be

viewed as visual imagery, what is more

interesting is how the letters, words and

phrases would be transformed and thus be

written as a digital image.

With more experimentation, more

process, more

performance, I began to see the various words

and phrases write themselves into an image as

color, as line, as pattern. The abstractions are

the result of performing the text and

transforming it to a visual language. Just as

language; words, phrases have multiple

interpretations, the visual imagery produced a

reflection of this. 

I decided to stop thinking!