finnegans wake

I wish I had more close-up sideways images that show the pokey-out bits in these prints and drawings.

The images below are from my exhibition, Alphabeater, at Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, 6–17 October 2009. Photographs by Stuart Hay, ANU Photography.

Alphabeater/Finnegans Wake

‘One part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.’ James Joyce on Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake read by James Joyce, arranged for 20-note paper strip musical movement

MVI_0407Originally uploaded by nicci.haynes

The pianola roll was created by converting the sound frequencies of James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake into dots on a computer printout (using Ben Fry’s Processing language). I punched holes corresponding to the dots. Joyce reads at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc

Finnegans Wake: 226631 wakewords

Finnegans Wake

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226631 Wakewords (detail)

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