Rocktown Scroll: Shakespeare, 2006, pen and ink plotter drawing, 29 x 23 in., Saint Vincent College Collection. Gift of the Artist.
Text translation:
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
Text source: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2.1.255-258)
Text translation:
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
Text source: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2.1.255-258)
The Rocktown Scrolls are named for the Pennsylvania coalfield “patch” where Verostko grew up “dreaming wondrous dreams while sliding down the ash-dumps.” They present colorful algorithmic drawings accompanied with passages selected from a wide range of literature and culture. The passages are written with algorithmically- generated glyphs clothing the alphabet with a unique set of linear forms. These coded glyph forms invite viewers to ponder the nature of language while the larger, colored forces may be savored as cyber flowers floating in unbounded space.
