Secret Languages @ Fu Bar Luxembourg

My burn drawings are showing starting today at Fu Bar in Clausen, Luxembourg (you can find them on Facebook here). I spent the afternoon hanging them, and all are welcome and encouraged to head down there and enjoy my work, a fantastic burger, and some local brew. Drawings can be purcahsed through my website, or in cash at the bar.

Each profession has a way of speaking, words they use that outsiders don't understand (or don't understand the full meaning of,) acronyms, or ways of speaking that can be unintelligible to the untrained listener. These professional languages are interesting in that they serve to enhance communication within the in-group. They make it more precise, or more efficient, but at the same time they create a group of outsiders, who, because of not having learned the language, cannot participate fully in the conversation without the help of an insider. 

The work available at Fu Bar is from a series titled "Secret Languages," that reflects on this idea. They are made on water colour paper, the mark is created by drawing hot glass, straight out of the furnace, onto the paper with a steel rod. The line quality is very calligraphic, evoking simultaneously ideas of language and landscape.

This is for me, an interesting meditation on language and communication. This is a mark that glassmakers understand, they have seen it before, they know how it was made, but to an outsider, it can be mysterious.

Each of the pieces is unique and cannot be replicated.

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