The writing on the wall is a YouTube documentary by Handcraft Creative, which follows the journey of artists in Winnipeg, Canada. The city is populated by hundreds of hand-painted signs, some of which have faded into obscurity. This film follows artist Craig Winslow, who finds old photographs of these signs, recreates them perfectly and then projects them back on to the wall, refurbishing them, temporarily.
I was fascinated by this work with high technology and light projections to recreate hand-painted traditional signs, blurring the lines between the past and the future.
It was this documentary that inspired my research into Signwriting, which was once a dying art but is having a resurgence, and it's traditional techniques. I am interested in bringing antiquated techniques and using them in modern processes, for example my own hand-lettering which was then digitised and laser cut to create signage that uses both new and old.
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