Folio: Text and shape

I’m looking for ideas about shape that connect my focus on edge, my writing and the photographic objects I make. 

And so I’ve been reading: 

Linda Short (2015) Alex Selenitsch LIFE/TEXT  Heide Museum of Modern Art

Selenitsch  'is best known as a concrete poet, yet his practice traverses a range of disciplines, from architecture to artist books, printmaking, collage and sculpture' (p 5).

One possibility is to use the shape of words which have been foremost in my mind: edge – fence – boundary – back fence – in-between – laneway – back space – layer.

This would involve creating made up of squares and rectangles that combine to make the shape each word would make in lower case letters.

edge (6 squares or 2 squares and 2 rectangles)

fence (6 squares or 4 squares and 1 rectangles)

boundary (11 squares or 5 squares and 3 rectangles)

back fence (12 squares or 6 squares and 3 rectangles)

in-between (11 squares or 7 squares and 2 rectangles)

laneway (9 squares or 5 squares and 2 rectangles)

back space (12 squares or 6 squares and 3 rectangles)

layer (7 squares or 3 squares and 2 rectangles)

Other shapes inspired by these words might include:

E			E						E
G		E	D	G	E				D
D			G				E	D	G	E
E			E						E

FenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceFenceF

B	O	U	N	D	A	R	Y
O							R
U							A
N							D
D							N
A							U
R							O
Y	R	A	D	N	U	O	B

F	R	O	N	T	F	E	N	C	E
S									S
I									I
D									D
E									E
F									F
E									E
N									N
C									C
E	B	A	C	K	F	E	N	C	E

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T

W

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