Adam Rowe

The prints making up the sculpture are based on a set of four triangular Truchet tiles. Each tile made up the four main blocks for printing. Sixteen additional blocks were used during the printmaking process, randomly chosen for overprinting, creating a secondary tiling. The shape of the sculpture is an octahedron with a tetrahedron-shaped protrusion on each face, allowing all of the faces to be identical in shape and size.

This print is an Euler diagram appearing as a graph, showing the relationships between the letters of the alphabet and their phonetic respellings. Although no letterforms appear in the image, there is enough information present to reconstruct the English alphabet. This information includes a key which appears as a smaller version of the entire image, also providing clues for the shapes of the letterforms themselves. It is both impractical to use for anything yet thoroughly descriptive of the alphabet since it is about letters but contains none of them. Remember those abecedarian decorations bordering the tops of walls in elementary classrooms? What if this had been there instead?