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Chris Ballingall
Altered Poems, 2009
Altered Poems is a series of appropriated book pages that have been altered by covering the majority of words in ink. By obscuring all but a few words, the viewer is left to ponder these ambiguous sentences. The arrangement of the words on the page can be veiwed as the middle of a conversation, leaving the viewer to fill in the blanks and create a context for the words that they can see. The position of every untouched word was carefully considered when selecting the structure of each poem.
Chris Ballingall (b.1985) grew up on the Isle of Wight, has since lived in the USA and now resides in Portsmouth where he studied at University of Portsmouth completing his BA in Fine Art. He has recently completed his Fine Art MA.
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