Artist and physicist: Christian Faur
Ninja February 26th, 2009
It seems that I’ve got a thing for crayons this week.
More than just pixel art with haunting stares, Christian Faur’s crayon installations have everything to do with codes and sequence. He went as far as developing a color alphabet system where each letter of the alphabet corresponds with a specific color. Hidden in Christian’s Forgotten Children series are hundreds of children’s names in each panel.
Taking a cue from Phoenicians, what I have done is to map a subset 26 distinct colors to a standardized set of signs (English alphabet or graphemes) that will allow me to construct meaning out of color directly and unambiguously using the English system of language that I am already familiar with. These 26 colors are to be housed in a set of handmade glyphs that allow a reader to more clearly navigate through the color data (although the use of these glyphs are irrelevant as long as the colors are distinct, standardized and the reader is given a direction for reading). The addition of unique set of “punctuation symbols” developed in the font, allow the more accurate mapping of meaning from a standard “glyph” based set of symbols into the color.
– Christian Faur
The Color Purple, 2009
Hand cast encaustic crayons
21 x 21 inches
Experiment 5, 2008
Hand cast encaustic crayons
12 x 12 inches
Experiment 5 detail
Where the sidewalk end, 2008
Hand cast encaustic crayons
21 x 21 inches
Popies, 2007
4773 Hand cast encaustic crayons
19.5in x 19.5 in.
Porcelain Womb, 2007
Hand cast encaustic crayons
19.5 in x 19.5 in.
Related link
+ Christian Faur’s website and portfolio
