Letters as pattern

Yesterday I showed you some panels of text. The whole idea is for it to be a pattern of letters and the lights and dark areas are as evenly spread as the variables in the spaces around the letters. Larger  areas such as surrounding an i or a v, create lighter tonal areas and smaller ones (like the counterspace in an e) create darker tonal areas. This gives the piece an abstract sense of movement.

It also becomes a sort of dynamic matrix or ‘net’ This aluminium piece is by Heleen de Haas who is a South African Calligrapher Extraordinaire, and one of my close friends (but I’m not biased, I promise!). I’ve jazzed up the texture even more by displaying it on pebbles. Have fun reading it – legibility is not the most important thing here, but it starts: ‘I love the people…’

Below is a piece of jewellery which is meant to be legible but is on the same theme of ‘letters as pattern’.It says .’Ek het julle innig lief’ which is translated as ‘I love you dearly’.