Inspired by the work of experimental writer and artist Kathy Acker, Borrowed Word is a series of poems written using text appropriated from a range of popular media sources. “Horizontal Flux” is a motion graphics piece created using a borrowed word beat poem.

Kathy Acker was famous for challenging what constituted plagiarism in her appropriation and deconstruction of text and language. Media sources used to appropriate text from for Borrowed Word included classified ads, girly magazine and tabloid newspaper headlines, Twitter/Facebook, Mills & Boons novels, Readers Digest, Time/Life encyclopaedias, television ads, pop songs – deconstructed and reconstructed into linguistic cultural environments.

The pieces started off fairly randomly and nonsensical, with no specific notion of context or message, but I was fascinated to watch them evolve and take on a shape containing very specific message.