In Letters Found, letterforms are observed in nature – lying exposed along mountain trails and in my local surroundings.
What began as a quiet exercise in attentiveness gradually developed into a collection of ephemeral characters shaped by twigs, stones, pine needles, and other transient materials – forms that might easily vanish by the next day, covered by soil, moss, or simply carried away by the wind.
Gone.
The publication is printed in Risoprint. The cover is printed in white on black paper, while the content is printed in blue, like a blueprint. Direct and tactile. The publication is a blueprint in a double sense. Primarily, in the sense that it is an accurate copy of the letter forms presented.
Secondly, a design term from graphic history is activated: the blueprint – a type of contact copy used as the final proof in the printing process, now nearly forgotten. In graphic production, blueprints were an early form of contact copy, where text and images were reproduced in blue on a special light-sensitive paper. It was often used as the final proof before the printing plates were made, to ensure that everything in the film montage – the layout of text and images – was correct.
Letters Found | 50ex | 16,5x23,5cm | 2024
Risoprinted at KMD in collaboration with print master Mads Andersen.
