alphabets 2006 - 2008

 

A long term project developing series of lithographs printed from combination of stone and ball-grained aluminium plates - drawn using crayon and tusche; and photoplates exposed with customised computer generated digital washes.


Started in 2006 the basis for these prints has been research into the etymological development of language and the pictographic origins of symbols, letters, alphabets, characters and words. Inspired in part by the cultural roots of language, these prints, which employ combination of graphic elements both invented and borrowed are increasingly about the development of a visual language and its classification and presentation in charts, diagrams, lists, lexicons, dictionaries  and as thesauri.

alphabet A

Lithograph 265mm x 370mm 2006

alphabet B

Lithograph 265mm x 370mm 2006

alphabet C

Lithograph 265mm x 370mm 2006

alphabet D

Lithograph 265mm x 370mm 2007

alphabet E

Lithograph 265mm x 370mm 2007

Stone - Acid Tint

alphabet F

Lithograph 290mm x 395mm 2008

Stone and Photoplate with digital wash

alphabet G

Lithograph 400mm x 290mm 2008

Stone and Photoplate with digital wash

alphabet O

Lithograph 265mm x 370mm 2008


alphabet N

Lithograph 265mm x 370mm 2008


alphabet Mn

Lithograph 385mm x 515mm 2008


alphabet K

Lithograph 420mm x 590mm 2006


alphabet Q

Lithograph 400mm x 600mm 2006


alphabet Y

Lithograph 400mm x 600mm 2006


alphabet S

Lithograph 420mm x 590mm 2006