Retrospektive Tom Konyves
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BEWARE OF DOG (2008) 3.5 min.
As with No Parking, I found the sign/title first. Signs have always fascinated me; their precise signification enabling the discovery of other, unrelated connections, creating a ‘condition’ through which a poetic experience can be produced. The inversion or revolving swivel of the word DOG (GOD) suggested three voices, for which I composed lines of text, displayed on the upper and lower rails of a fence. By the time the first few lines were jotted down, I had already decided that the writing would go on a fence; I liked the idea of the ‘two sides’ of the fence, the two sides of a dialogue, of a coin, etc. The slats though had to be horizontal for the placement of text, so I began scouting fences which had wide horizontal slats, with just enough space between them to suggest that there was an ‘other side’. Strange, how many fences I considered before I settled on… the one in my own backyard! When visual differentiation between the two voices became necessary, I did not use the palette of fonts, sizes and styles; instead, I introduced the ‘upper’ text with a slow dissolve in and out (suggesting the ephemeral aspect), while the lower text would appear as “being typed”, suggesting the world of action and the senses, specifically the sense of touch.
