Made up true story

Sam Winston, who also wrote/illustrated this work presents some ideas on the project he has been working on for the last three years.

Winston’s experiments came from looking at the structures of different types of literature: from storybooks to bus timetables: “The way you navigate a timetable is very different to the way you read a short story” he comments. “I wanted to take these different types of visual navigation and introduce them to each other: a timetable re-ordering all the words from beauty and the beast, or a newspaper report on Snow White.” By imposing the visual rules of one style of writing to a different system of organizing language, Winston has created a visually arresting and verbally intriguing piece.”

Paula Carson, Graphic Poetry. June 2005

Hand cut edition is of 10 and the screen-print edition is of 90. Both editions signed by the artist. Circle Press, London, 2005.

• http://www.samwinston.com/