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Alpha-Beta (2015)

Print / projection, 900 x 900


A sigil formed from every letter of the alphabet. One layer, an omnipresent font standing in for a kind of platonic ideal of each letter, the other, hand painted, here to perform the internalised ideal.


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This project was largely intuitive, but since developing the initial ideas there have been some wonderful parallels and connections show up. I found the following gif a few years later which does a much more formal job of having a single sigil contain all the alphabets letters - I would love to know who made this:

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[monogram image] Jasper Johns Alphabet works