graphic synthesis

Soubhik Chakrabarti

feed it to Aleph Null, and you’ll have something for your show and I’ll have something for my website and other stuff that I do’,” said Andrews, recounting the exchange.

Some of the prints at the show, such as pome that frees and 2 th see, resulted from Andrews using Aleph Null to combine some of bissett’s archived poetry from the 1960s and his more recent works.

“The new stuff looks kind of like computer code and the old stuff looks typewriter-ish,” Andrews said.

Viewers have told Andrews that this work is “really striking visually, but also very readable.”

Bissett calls Andrews a “genius”.

“The way he collages text is really wonderful,” bissett said of Andrews’ work with Aleph Null. “You can see more than usual, the stitches in the letters and the letters in the pictures.

Most languages are [pictographic], so language in letters… comes alive.”

One of the pieces in the exhibit, USAMERICAN HITLER, mashes images of Adolf Hitler and U.S. President Donald Trump together. Although he was commissioned to create the work, Andrews said he’s “not all too fond of Trump” either.

"He's going to contact the band, the Nine Inch Nails, and hope fully get them interested in using these images in a music video,” said Andrews, of a potential collabora tion. He said that the project is his and the commissioner’s attempt to “fight fascism”.

Peter Courtemanche, an exhibit attendee, thought Andrews’ work was unique. “It’s different because of the painted look. It looks more like printing on paper, like multi-media,” Courtemanche said.