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Loui Jover
Loui Jover‘s artwork involves drawing in ink over adhered-together old book pages. The very striking result: The pages give the drawings, as Jover puts it, “a kind of ‘meaning’ or back-story, even though they’re unconnected to the artwork in a contrived way.” … there is a fragility to these images that I find interesting (as if the wind may blow them away at any moment) and the hand drawn stark black lines against the intricate printed words of the book pages offer a strange fusion and depth …
Interestingly, when picking book pages to use Jover doesn’t choose to explicitly connect them to the artwork. The connection, for example, between the drawing of the couple walking down the street at night and the manuscript pages they’re placed against is left entirely up to the observer.
Jover’s process is to collide the two works “as chance permits,” allowing meaning to form in the imaginings of anyone who looks at the artwork.
