Name:
TETSUYA ENDO Role:
Artist
Media:
Sculpture
Region:
London In this age of electronic communication, text can be totally de-materialised. Until Gutenberg's and then Caxton's ventures, text was meticulously hand-copied by scribes and that text was meant to be read aloud. Text thus used to have such physicality. Scholars like McLuhan suggests this deprivation of physicality in text has led to today's privileged status of sight among five senses and eventually affected the way people think in the West. My recent practice involved carving letters in stone. It is a technique dating back to the ancient Roman Empire and has been kept alive in Britain. Using this technique means to give absolute physicality back to text, and be critical of the way people today think.

