A Bespoke Occult Glyph for Every Quandary | VICE Creators Project
A brand new interview with me on VICE Creators Project!
“I try to use symbols and keys which carry their own ‘thingness’ as well as being aesthetically suggestive of an idea or a feeling. The concept of ‘thingness’ is something I pursue constantly in all my work, not just Problem Glyphs. By ‘thingness,’ I mean the way some drawings are able to give the impression of being very whole or present,” she says. Gauger cites German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer’s drawing of a hare, as well as paintings from the Lascaux and Chauvet caves in France, as examples. It is when the representation of the image moves beyond mere representation and becomes the thing itself, at least in our imaginations, that Gauger finds so magical. “I want my glyphs to have the thing-magic, to be objects, hexes, or spells or blessings, to make their carrier or wearer heavy and rich. I always try to give them that muchness.”