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Manual for the Interpretation of the Intersticial Spaces Between Text & Image

This work is based on the appropriation of imagery from Fotonovelas - a popular “real-life comic-book” form of storytelling which combines a written story line with scene-by-scene photo-illustrations. The written narratives usually involve some type of moral posturing which runs counter to the stylized and extremely sexualized rendering of the characters -- this counter movement results in a contradictory overlap between the two modes of telling, visual and textual, an overlap heightened by the lascivious tone of the image and the moralizing embodied in the narratives.

It is within this overlap that the narratives, the Fotonovelas, achieve the pleasurable affect of entertaining through their visually risqué dramatizations while simultaneously expounding a reactionary moral lesson.

The appropriated imagery from the Fotonovelas, is presented as a print rather than its original book form. The particular narratives are replaced in favor of a larger implied narrative which doesn’t progress or regress but rather opens up particular moments to other readings by the reorganization of the original imagery through digital manipulation and the introduction of foreign visual material.