Kilfitty Kalfattin
a visual language
by
jerod peitsmeyer
"when i was child i ate words. new words, spoken by adults, flung at me like scraps from a feast and they tumbled within me. i rolled humanity from my tongue to my teeth. letters and sounds may as well have been ancient candy, palpable morsels of history that I chewed endlessly like the gristle of time. i ingested the patina of language and gorged on hooking it all together, a tangled and lush glob.
i’ve recently returned to this rumination and four decades later i’ve made myself available to translate backwards, to reverse engineer what i’ve heard back into a comforting and unnerving soup of sounds, misheard and misunderstood but taken at face value."
-jerod peitsmeyer
i’ve recently returned to this rumination and four decades later i’ve made myself available to translate backwards, to reverse engineer what i’ve heard back into a comforting and unnerving soup of sounds, misheard and misunderstood but taken at face value."
-jerod peitsmeyer
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jerod is a professor of art history at the university of montana and also manages three, public art galleries in missoula, jerod has presented in numerous group and solo shows. the objects in this arrangement act as a loving return to confusion, a dismantling of genre and style and an embrace of the chaotic virality of language.