Superimposed on top of one another, these individual words, numbers and phrases start to merge, creating fields of partially obscured and often
illegible texts.
If you can find the middle ground between overly verbose, gushing love tomes and
illegible text chat, you're on the right track.
Indicators are found in what could be considered physical traces: identifiable blurbs of
illegible text beneath some of the images, a shadow from the facing page, or black space below the edge as if leftover from a poorly aligned photo copier — all reminders that the artist handled this book in order to create the work.
These graphically dark circles are interspersed with hanging nooses, one of which holds a letter in strange
illegible text.
Not exact matches
When
text clashes with any part of the background, the result is
illegible, especially in the thumbnail.
Not unlike the consumer's experience in the grocery store, where food products are accompanied by
text listing ingredients and nutritional value (along with marketing copy), the art consumer is presented with language — title, date, dimensions, materials, a press release — that may reveal meaning
illegible in the work itself.
With
illegible fragments of
text arranged over sculpted surfaces, Chun creates harmonious areas that fade from light to dark in the manner of a flock of birds changing direction.
In some of the new work, the
text becomes nearly
illegible, verging on subliminal messages, forcing the viewer to work for the plot.
In his composite photograph Every Page of Roland Barthes's Book Camera Lucida (2004), Idris Khan has presented the book as a blackened palimpsest, its famous images mere blurred phantoms among
illegible lines of
text.
Blurred pages of the New York Times from January 2008 serve as the basis for his work and while a lot of the
text is
illegible a few headlines shone through «Bear Stearns» and «credit slump» stood out, even the artists are playing with our perception of the credit crunch.
Only when you draw near to any of these paintings do you see the
text and numerals — most written in an
illegible, spidery hand, a few in typescript — that are these paintings» base note.
This is most obvious in the accompanying publication, a beautifully produced, hardbound, fully illustrated, 200 - page tome in which all the
texts and images have been blurred and recalibrated to the point where they are all but
illegible.
Sujin Lee's The Voice is an attempt to articulate the character of another voice, while Nyeema Morgan's Forty - Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Use to Make layers the original recipe from Morgan's grandmother along with different configurations of the instructions, resulting in an
illegible bramble of
text with strike - throughs and arrows.
The layering of the
text renders it
illegible.
Among Ligon's own contributions to «Encounters and Collisions» were several works with
texts that employ the first - person pronoun: In Untitled (I am drawn to sleaze...), 1985, the parenthetical phrase has been handwritten across an expanse of juicy oil pigment; in Untitled (I Lost My Voice I Found My Voice), 1991, the
text was repeatedly stenciled in oil stick onto a gessoed white ground until it became
illegible; in Study for Condition Report, 2000, annotations identifying damage and wear are made on a photocopy of a photograph of a painting reprising the famous protest signs declaring I AM A MAN.
You can also make the map larger or smaller, but zooming out too far makes the
text illegible, of course.
Farsighted users (or those of us who have trouble reading small
text) may prefer displays with smaller native resolutions, although there are settings in most modern operating systems to accommodate for
illegible small
text.
Much to our delight, the tablet's software was able to correctly make sense of our
illegible cursive, translating our chickenscratch into proper
text.
It's particularly annoying when compression artifacts make the
text illegible, or I want to go read the rest of the article or engage with the thing in the screenshot somehow.
Display: A good display has a high resolution (1920x1080 for smaller phones, 2650x1440 for larger phones), so that you can read fine
text without it becoming blurry or
illegible.
All you need to do is cut off the bottom three inches of white space on your legal - sized sheet before you fax it out and you will be sure to receive the fax back without all the
text being shrunk and
illegible.