J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. An Ocean of Static was highly commended for the Forward Prizes 2018. This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021.
What makes an image? On the blurring of boundaries between drawing and writing, art and science, archive and art work in The Pleasure of the Coast: A Hydro-graphic Novel. https://luckysoap.com/pleasurecoast This imperfectly bilingual web-based work incorporates images and texts from an archive of the French hydrographer Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré with détourned philosophy from Roland Barthes, and fragments of fiction from Jean Girideaux to create a fragmentary form of literature: a hydro-graphic novel.
What makes an image? On the blurring of boundaries between drawing and writing, art and science, archive and art work in The Pleasure of the Coast: A Hydro-graphic Novel. https://luckysoap.com/pleasurecoast This imperfectly bilingual web-based work incorporates images and texts from an archive of the French hydrographer Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré with détourned philosophy from Roland Barthes, and fragments of fiction from Jean Girideaux to create a fragmentary form of literature: a hydro-graphic novel.
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