 The most intriguing piece at the Friends of Calligraphy show I saw recently was this one by Susan Skarsgard — unfortunately my photo didn’t turn out, this is only a partial image and it’s from Cari Ferraro’s blog (thank you very much Cari!). It’s 26 rectangles, arranged in 7 rows, and the signage says this is part of “26 of 26: An Edition of Twenty-six Alphabets.” My interest piqued, I scoured the web and found 2 more images plus an article about an exhibition that included the 26 prints.
In her gallery statement, Skarsgard says that the exhibit “is a kind of meditation on the alphabet as an object, much the same way that a musician/composer might invent a series of compositions based on a theme.” “The familiar shapes of the alphabet,” she continues, “taken down to their elemental form and stripped of their meaning, have always been intriguing to me. Kind of like arranging the DNA of language and looking at it purely as shape and form.’
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From the article by John Carlos Cantu:
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