Earlier today, Kelly showed me a photo from a catalog that had someone’s named spelled out in letters from photographs of various objects. I immediately thought it would be a fun project to do for Cooper and sketched out a couple examples from alphabets I pulled off the web. Obviously, it will be more fun and meaningful to take the pictures myself. So, my next pet project will be to come up with a couple photographic alphabet fonts to use as source material for this project.

Below are a few of the sketches of the type of thing I’m talking about. When actually printed and put on the wall they could be in a single frame with 6 sections, or in 6 separate frames. The exact manifestation is yet to be determined.

The above sketches show two of the three obvious classes of representations. (1) photos of actual letters [ ransom note style], and (2) physical objects that unintentionally represent a given letter. The third class of font that isn’t represented is further removed, showing a photo of an object that begins with the letter you want to represent. So for Cooper, maybe that is a series of 6 photos of a clock, orange, orange, pyramid, elephant, and ring.

What do you think? Any recomendations for directions or options?

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