GLYPHEN

About the Work

This work is based on a deliberate reduction and transformation of form. Its starting point consists of drawings of plants and technological hybrids, which were progressively simplified in an ongoing process until a single sign emerged from each drawing. Rather than representation or reference, the focus lies on the condensed form as a carrier of structure and recognizability. What was initially legible as organic or technical becomes an elemental sign beyond fixed meaning.

Over the course of thirty days, an alphabet of thirty signs emerged. This alphabet follows no established logic of writing and is not intended to be readable. It exists as an open system situated between image and script. From these signs, the artist developed a graphic work realized as a digital print on aluminum for the exhibition Fun a Day in Albuquerque. The work remained there as a donation supporting the reconstruction of the gallery after the fire.

The developed signs were subsequently reused in the project Keimzellen, realized as a projection within the symposium Luminosity in Chicago. Arranged in honeycomb-like structures, the individual signs appear within the cells and are alternately faded in and out. The cell functions as a germinal space: a site in which ideas emerge, develop, and dissolve. The signs do not form a fixed sequence or a stable alphabet, but enter into a temporal, process-based configuration.

Language is not understood here as a closed system, but as something that takes shape from initially indeterminate elements. Communication does not operate through fixed meaning, but through difference, repetition, and variation. The alphabet remains fragmentary and open, pointing to a state prior to the stabilization of language. The work thus raises questions about the origin of language and the conditions under which signs begin to produce meaning.

The project approaches signs not as representations, but as operative units within an ongoing process. Meaning does not arise from clarity or definition, but through temporal sequence, appearance, and disappearance. The work considers language as a growing, unstable structure and makes visible those moments in which communication remains fluid and in formation.

Exhibitions

2025 FUN A DAY, FourteenFifteen Gallery, Albuquerque, USA

Provenance

Property FourteenFifteen Gallery, Albuquerque, USA