from Fescue
A note on the process of Fescue :
I made a lexicon of Victorian
(obsolete) words in the poem, and used those to help cut my own way.
The lexicon helped me plot a course through each page, as well as
establish certain patterns. I was definitely inspired by Ronald Johnson
and his attention to Milton's poem. Johnson paid very close attention
to the frame of the page, the skeletal aspects of typography.
I chose P.J. Bailey's Festus as my source because I wanted a disorganized text. Festus was perfect because Bailey kept adding to the poem all his life, doubling its size. What I wanted to do was override the frame of each page by forming tighter texts, far away from borders, which figure largely in Johnson's radi os. The lyrics all make gestures to what the page was, but unlike Johnson's poem, mine is not encapsulating or overarching. I am inside of the typography. In that sense, it becomes invisible.
I chose P.J. Bailey's Festus as my source because I wanted a disorganized text. Festus was perfect because Bailey kept adding to the poem all his life, doubling its size. What I wanted to do was override the frame of each page by forming tighter texts, far away from borders, which figure largely in Johnson's radi os. The lyrics all make gestures to what the page was, but unlike Johnson's poem, mine is not encapsulating or overarching. I am inside of the typography. In that sense, it becomes invisible.
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