 The word punk has been smoldering in English for hundreds of years, undergoing drastic changes of meaning from century to century. A kind of overcooked corn, explained in a 1618 account of certain Indians in Virginia. Around that time, also, punk was a word for 'ashes' in the Delaware Indian language. A couple of centuries later, punk had become a word for the slow-burning sticks used in kindling fireworks. By 1889 it was a slang term for a cigarette, and by the end of the century punk had a sense 'worthless'. Today's first meaning of punk, a small-time hoodlum, developed in the period between the World Wars. And in the late 1970s punk was assiociated with music. Céline Wouters (Sittard, 1980) After graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2006. I work as a freelance graphic designer based in Amsterdam (NL). Where I do – mainly in the form of printed matter – both self-initiated as commissioned projects. At Young Culture gallery a selection of my work is presented. |
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