“The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the “Old West” or the “Wild West”) between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
The frontier is depicted in Western media as a sparsely populated hostile region patrolled by cowboys, outlaws, sheriffs, and numerous other stock gunslinger characters. Western narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, manifest destiny, and the national history and identity of the United States. Native American populations were often portrayed as averse foes or savages.”
Western (genre) (2024) Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre) (Accessed: 14 November 2024).
Initially, I wanted to engage with the text I had chosen, Blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy, by translating his written work into visual pieces.
This was done by experimenting with poster concepts and a visual imagining of his characters, especially that of the most iconic ones: The Judge.
Though interesting these didn’tintrigue me as much as the actual act of translating.
This continued into me developing a Twine based translation of the same paragraph to diffrent languages which had been translated with the use of Google Translate. This tracked the destruction of the originals text meaning as you interacted with the work.