Tiny Vandalism
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My diploma focused on the question: Are there lyric people, more inclined to listen carefully to the lyrics of a song, and melody people, people satisfied with just enjoying the melody without further knowledge of what they’re actually listening to? After I came to the conclusion that there are, in fact, lyric people and melody people (and all of those in-between), it became my goal to find a way to arrest attention to lyrics even for melody people to notice. I started writing lyric passages down everywhere I went. I wrote them on toilet doors, fences, trees, junction boxes, statues, gutters, street lights, hydrants, walls, bicycle-tube-vendors, mailboxes, road signs, panels and frameworks. Always in public spaces. Always in tiny letters (about 1cm height). Always so that only people who are especially attentive to their environment can find them. I did this so that people can get a new, unexpected access to lyrics. That way, I offered a new way of conceiving and perceiving lyrics, that, at the same time, is quite similar to the way we notice them when we listen to music. The book I made is an homage to the 100 lyrics I used. It combines both the lyric passages as well as the whole lyrics and its design is based on a german protestant hymnal.
