Cleo Tsw: It’s Structural

‘It’s structural’ was devised from movements of intuition and habit. Adobe Indesign, typically recognised as a desktop publishing and page layout software application, has been the site of this writing. My own proximity and familiarity with Indesign’s architecture from my entanglement as a graphic designer has resulted in it being, for many years now, my ‘minimum necessary’ to sketch or test a visual idea. I use it a lot and beyond its own description.

Is some ways, this has been an exercise in contingency and rapid prototyping. I wrote fragments everywhere—on the notebooks, post, work documents, e-mail drafts—at all times of the day, the intermittently consolidated them on an Indesign document. On this interface, writing, typesetting, and editing took place in tandem. Words were at times omitted or added to prevent widows and orphans, blank spaces inserted at will. Images were pulled from everywhere and coaxed into relation—resized, cropped, sometimes captioned, sometimes not. This has, in turn, registered in the textuality that underpins this publication;* there are traces from the activities lodged on every page.