DJ Roberts
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POSTER SERIES
Flyposting offends some people, but I greatly enjoy the results. Recently I was offered the chance to work with a poster designer and only lack of time prevented me from doing so. I now produce my own designs, three preliminary versions of which can be seen left, bottom row, flyposted in Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2. I like the idea that work relating to my interest in, and excitement about, the outside and everyday world should start to occupy that world in a physical sense. The work, and the emotions it explores and celebrates will become part of the environment that inspires it. The siting of the posters is important; they are very much intended to be site-specific.
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Glad Confident Morning (preliminary version),2011
Gouache on paper
74.5 x 50cm
Glad Confident Morning are the three magical words that appear in Robert Browning�s poem �The Lost Leader�. It�s that feeling when everything seems possible, when you know everything is going to work out. The type face should be Johnston Sans.
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Return Journey 2 (preliminary design), 2011
Gouache on paper
74.5 x 50cm
My home town is Swansea, and you can�t come from Swansea without being aware � very well aware � of Dylan Thomas. Thomas had his faults, artistic and otherwise, but I am a fan. I�m a particular fan of his stories and dramatic pieces. While living in Swansea I read �Return Journey�, his short script for radio. I identified strongly with the preoccupations of �young Thomas� and his friends � Michelangelo, ping-pong, ambition, Sibelius and girls (for ping-pong read sport in general). I still do. Here they are, reproduced in poster form.
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Bottom left: Poem (preliminary version), 2011
Bottom right: Return Journey 2 (preliminary version), 2011
Gouache on paper
Each poster 74.5 x 50cm
An interesting element of flyposting is the way the aesthetic jumble, or collision, of images mimics contemporary life, where more than ever before we are subjected to visual overkill.
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66 (preliminary version), 2011
Gouache on paper
74.5 x 50cm
A companion piece to Glad Confident Morning. A few years ago I travelled a significant part of the original Route 66 (which has now been removed from the US Highway System, having been replaced by Interstate Highways). I like the idea of flyposting this poster in the suburbs, where it can act as a metaphor for our dreams, for our desire to escape.
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