(M)irror, Cue, (A)laborated (2006)

“These twenty-six letters of our alphabet, animated , as Massin  says, by hundreds of artists from every period, are put in a metaphoric relation with something other  than the letter: animals (birds, fish, serpents, rabbits, some devouring others to form a D, and E, a K, an L, etc.) men (silhouettes, limbs, postures), monsters, vegetal structures (flowers, tendrils, trunks), instruments (scissors, sickles, tripods, etc.) : a whole catalogue of natural and human products comes to double the alphabet’s brief list: the entire world is incorporated into the letters, the letter becomes an image in the tapestry of the world.” (Barthes, 1985, p.100).