Paraploo's Marked Body of Playful Works

Paraploo ... MARKS ... inky black on milk white ... Read(s) ... Fields of Writing ... Composed or constructed from marks that behave like loopy dashes and cross dots ... Connecting the way script joins ... never resolving into coherent handwritten words ...

Called Reads ... yet no one can actually read them in the usual sense ... Visitor gazing eyes do what they do scan all of the flat shapes that make up the textures ... anticipating some sort of payoff ... that never comes in a way that is expected ... Paraploo writing has two sides ... propagating of many different types of marks and the meaning each one rides on ... Everything about the behavior survives on the bright surface ... the meandering of thin strokes and dotting ... Duties traded ... a hyphen replaces a kinked hoop ... Conjured tiny parts describe the paddock and stockades as fairly to mostly linear ...

Deep dark shadow and light is writing's polarity ... page or screen with room ... So ... portion areas borrow a territory's costume while refusing the job of one single surface ... Milk is a first color ... a before words huey-tint ... while black is the shade of close to everything written by hand ... Paraploo Pre-language ground ... leads to universal mother tongue marks ...

Handwriting is normally one person talking to another ... paRAploo-gRAph marking is writing with the "to whom" removed ... And this practice arrived here on foot ... describing landscapes without the need for a map ... Break "breathing bread of life" where grooves magically appear ...

The hand that makes all of this can also choose to keep the personalness and energy of writing ... and release all other obligations ... during this empowering flow ... The receiver's eye keeps trying to read the details and overall harmonious pattern ... and the field gets past every kind of block ... receiving permission to keep growing this enormous body of playful works ...

Alphabet ancestors existed near this ... for odd use or pleasant dismissal ... This paraploo density registering as pages of a continuing story of solidity ... Raising how much can be packed into a given space ... either by adding more marks or reducing the area ... Any change that increases the number of marks or decreases the room will increase denseness ...

Marks cluster into landscape typology ... denser knots surrounded by sparser passages ... Reading like settlements viewed from above ... the viewer looking down at a colony whose logic is visible but whose language is not ... Once that was as words is now as countless marks ... Fine ... strokes distributed uniformly ... No center or hierarchy ... instead cross sections of figurative roots carefully articulated ... natural world networks ... Paraploo lines never thicken too much for stronger emphasis ... because nothing is more important than anything else ... Within every picture ( radical property ) there is no main character ...

Every lack on the surface becomes a new freedom ... the field itself pays ... Line by line with notions of absence converted into this language of liberty ... autonomous conversation protected by 88% practice and 22% discipline ...

Small marks ... thousands of decisions ... Letter adjacent syllables repeating until they stop reading like a word ... Even throughout density shimmering ... buzzing ... becoming more mesmerizing with each additional concept pushing the envelope further ... Paraploo Marks optical effect of thousands of near identical dark marks on warm gray is real ... A title turns to the viewer mid-piece and asks them to inspect their own WHY attention ...

Organic curvature ... scattered x-marks ... unnamed organism range intrusion ... Visual energy after narrative ... Arbitrary calligraphic joke ... unreadable marks set in a fixed order superimposed on invisible chaos ... And the piece knows it ... Marks stay kindred ... same family ... but the density moves ... from open settlements to the woven Zy Zi Zye in a fold ... Any written critique about this ... any showing of this ... can be organized by staying completely open to density possibilities ... and plenty of breath to integrate ...

Paraploo Artwork titles are extravagantly readable ... Fields organize around the "station of the Title" ... A type of engine felt in a single artifact ... wordless and word locked together ... Better yet ... Unified ...

At gallery distance Paraploo pieces are textural ... A showing that cannot zoom shows half the piece ... Field plus title plus a short paragraph is our natural unit ... There's no focal point to survive clutter ... Who created these marks? ... Every character was found by search not influence ... This is a pattern of who else has existed in this territory ... some are useful opposites ... Withouts ... Outsiders ... Poets ... Masons ... Funded Critics ... Movements ... Real History ...

UNDERGROUND OBSESSIVES ... Complex Organisms ... Half Obliterated Armillaria ... Science is often stranger than metaphors ...

Branching hyphae that link ... trees, fungi, bacteria ... into distributed communication and information processing systems ... including electrical signaling as a computing substrate ...

An all over field with no focal point is explained through painting history or flat democratic surfaces ... Paraploo MARKS titles propose that the fields are portraits of a distributed intelligence rather than abstractions ...