The Unread Ones - Digital illustrations. 2021
In dialogue with the project Sensitive Ontologies, this series explores the relationship between body, text, and image through a digital and schematic visual language. While formally different, it revisits the idea of language as visual material and of semantic emptiness as a poetic trigger.
This series begins with a visual curiosity: exploring minimal, almost schematic figures that resemble generic pictograms or icons. Each character is built from simple shapes and filled with fragments of lorem ipsum—that fictional language that lingers at the edges of design, waiting to be replaced by real content.
By leaving the text empty, the image seems to resist being fully read. As if meaning hovers nearby but never quite settles. The body becomes a surface for inscription, and the figures carry something that cannot be fully named.
The Unread Ones is an exercise in variation and repetition. A sequence of trials where drawing, colour, and typography intertwine in search of their own syntax. There is no explicit narrative, but perhaps a map is implied—or at least, a way of looking.
