"A" from Human Abecedary: Intra-Letters, by Viktor Timofeev, 2021

Each one of the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet, individually arranged in a seamless loop, sixty-four permutations per letter, one second at a time. This is the core mechanic underpinning the “unsteady” writing system Timofeev developed and used in this [recent exhibition DOG](https://viktortimofeev.com/dog/) at Interstate Projects, New York. Each letter is divided up into four quadrants, which rotate and swap around in a choreographic manner divided in pairs – tops and bottoms. Horizontal symmetry is preserved in order to maximize the potential for “accidental” imagery to emerge. This system generates sixty-four glyphs per letter, creating the illusion of an asemic writing syste...View all