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Kristina Pashkova

Now I work with text and handwriting. Many artists and poets have done something similar, like visual poetry on a typewriter. Handwriting is important for me, because it related to my childhood memories, with diary practice and also with notes in the margins when reading a book and highlighting something important to you.

The words written are taken from my personal context: informal and formal conversations, exhibition and curatorial texts, something that just came to my mind.

A few things I made from printer-printed texts, where the main body of the text is cut up and unreadable, but in the margins you can create your own poetry. I used Carole Hanish's "The Personal is Political" and Alexandra Kollontai's "Make way for Eros Winged!

Next step is weaving on a half-digital jacquard loom. I treat phrases as found word objects and artifacts, folding them or decomposing them, setting my own meanings and asking direct questions to the viewer.