Exploding Tongues: Language, Art, and the Russian Avant-garde

Project Proposal

For this project, I hope to use movable type to attempt to create a page that challenges the reader's internalized processes of reading. I would like to do this with either backward or inverted text as well as zaum poetry that evokes emotions of disruption. Ideally, the zaum poetry would be off center somehow. In addition to the text, I think it would be interesting to add hand-drawn lines that move the reader's eyes away from the inherent left to right reading strategy. I imagine the text to be black, but the lines could be either black or in color. The page overall would be fairly simple, however hopefully still eliciting feelings of chaos and confusion.

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