London-based artist, Sam Winston, creates drawings, and books out of language, like a ‘concrete poet’. He cuts and splices up words, turning his art into vessels of emotion and multiple meanings.
Winston has been in Miami since his Fountainhead Residency earlier this year. He was also a participant of the O, Miami poetry festival.
Winston grew up dyslexic, so his interest in words came from having a difficulty watching people use the writing system in a way he couldn’t use it. I think he’s got a very good handle of his own system. Winston calls an intersection between art and language — the gap between those two places.
Since 1999 I collated scraps of paper, diary notes and typed word document all pertaining to this one idea I was trying to express through a story. (Via: http://www.samwinston.com)
Sam Winston
“Orphan,” 2011
Japanese Tosa Washi paper, printed text
20 unbound pages comprising full artist book
Courtesy of Dorsch Gallery