These artifacts offer us a fresh angle on characters in several languages. The letters have been given a third dimension thanks to a lasercutter, and then they have been stacked and rotated to create sculptural effects. The “building blocks” are as follows:
Japanese concept of “Ma” or negative space (though bigger than 2D concerns); the characters for “gate” and “sun” are elided.
The Hebrew poetic or musical phrase “selah” (whose exact meaning is unknown): a logogram with the three letters–samech, lamed, hey–nested in one another.
The English word “PAUSE”: in brush written fraktur (the letters stack vertically and morph into one another).
The Egyptian double owl hieroglyph: which sounds “mm”.
The Mennonite Dove: a logo which I redesigned to be more complex and balanced.
