Hidden Transcripts

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Hidden Transcripts utilize the black metal logos for Indigenous place names created for The Writing Lesson. This body of work is constructed using brown vinyl applied to the reverse side of a white tarp. Optically, the tarp becomes an obstacle to viewing the image.
 
The Writing Lesson deployed the visual component of the heavy metal subgenre of black metal as a vernacular mode of writing to illustrate place names with indigenous origins. A significant amount of black metal music seeks to recuperate pre-Christian spiritual elements in the face of the forceful encroachment of monotheistic faiths. Through a rudimentary photographic process, the light of the sun has burned the names of places such as Masset, Skidegate, Chilliwack and Yakima into plain black construction paper with the hope more will be revealed than concealed.

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