Alphabet Terrain

I’m fascinated by the eclectic letterforms in the Latin alphabet and how they evolved thousands of years apart, across diverse societies, languages and writing materials.

This sculpture celebrates the inherent strangeness of this system by reassembling the twenty-six capital letters used in English into one continuous form. Each adjacent pair of letters has four intermediate shapes that morph between them, extruding the alphabet into a landscape of canyons and tunnels.

Foamcore / 2' × 6" × 6"