The things which appeal to me about Trenton Doyle Hancock's works include his word-play, his line-heavy compositions, and the pervasive Horror Vacui. I also admire his narratives and internal mythology, whose richness a viewer can appreciate throughout his entire body of work, and if they seek out interviews in which he speaks about the development of that mythology.
Text of different sizes becomes diffuse marks in his works, incomprehensible from a distance. Sections of it become visible on closer examination, or if they are especially large; often these sections are arranged in ways that play with meaning or which reward you when you figure them out, such as in the example of the fourth image above.
In interviews, Trenton Doyle Hancock speaks extensively about his characters and his internal narratives. He mentions that he had these characters throughout college, and after grad school pushed himself to flesh out the narratives in his work.
Text of different sizes becomes diffuse marks in his works, incomprehensible from a distance. Sections of it become visible on closer examination, or if they are especially large; often these sections are arranged in ways that play with meaning or which reward you when you figure them out, such as in the example of the fourth image above.
In interviews, Trenton Doyle Hancock speaks extensively about his characters and his internal narratives. He mentions that he had these characters throughout college, and after grad school pushed himself to flesh out the narratives in his work.
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