Of sign, sun and serpent
By
Robert Foster
2016
A print edition of 75 produced for Horizon at Roaming Room, London, UK.
The work uses tessellated, repeated and distorted text to explore the alphabet as a series of symbols with particular meaning only to those informed with the knowledge to decode such visual signs.
Through abstracting language, I hoped to generate a potential for formal symbolism guided by my research into the history of alchemy and its diverse influence on cultures from antiquity to the present.
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