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Notational Thoughts 1: Swarm  

Image courtesy of Pebofatso Mokoena Studio

The swarm is many things at the same time. It can be read as a series of marks which  make up a swarm, they can be read as a data blimp, a swarm of bees, a group of people  in vociferous and anxious movement. One mark is a dot, few dots are a constellation,  many dots become a swarm. For a few years, I’ve been thinking about the language of  people being represented as a dot, and statistics on paper.  

 

Many projects; geographical, historical, legal, socio-political, economic, conceptual, and  philosophical are based on habitation, being able to occupy space to live, grow, procreate  and loops back again and again. The swarm here is occupying space given by the  cosmologies of mark-making, colour, form and composition.

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