Dictionary. Penn, C.  (2009 - ?) (Fig. 67). Dictionary.   Unique Altered Book. (Work in Progress). Collage, sewing, drawing, painting.  35cm x 27cm x 4.5cm. Collection: Cheryl Penn.

A dictionary is made up of language fragments called words.  I have altered a language fragment book into a visual fragment book.  We use language to articulate the meaning of art, imposing a spoken and written language onto a visual language. This book also changes that order by imposing a visual language onto a written language by pasting, collaging and painting over words.  The ordering or sequence of a visual dictionary would be different to a word dictionary as there is no alphabetical order for visual fragments.  That form of  categorization belongs to words.

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