Museum of letters, by Fabio Morais, is part of the research developed by the artist in Paris, at Cité dês Arts, in the first semester of 2005. There, Morais photographed the stem of the trees that stay right between Museum of Louvre and Museum D’Orsay. On the stem one can see letters, signs and phrases left behind by the peasants. According to the artist, this alley, made of tattooed trees, functions as an open air museum where calligraphies, alphabets and different idioms are stored and that continuously grows as names and phrases are written on the stems. Trying to capture this situation in a reliable way, the artist printed these images on wood, creating an analogy between image and its support, between the real and the representation.
Museum of letters, by Fabio Morais, is part of the research developed by the artist in Paris, at Cité dês Arts, in the first semester of 2005. There, Morais photographed the stem of the trees that stay right between Museum of Louvre and Museum D’Orsay. On the stem one can see letters, signs and phrases left behind by the peasants. According to the artist, this alley, made of tattooed trees, functions as an open air museum where calligraphies, alphabets and different idioms are stored and that continuously grows as names and phrases are written on the stems. Trying to capture this situation in a reliable way, the artist printed these images on wood, creating an analogy between image and its support, between the real and the representation.