An audio-visual installation, Alphabet explores the malleable/recyclable characteristics of information and the numerous iterations one set of data can take.

The process begins with a single length of ribbon - woven onto itself to form a grid. This grid is used as a rudimentary canvas onto which an image is printed. By then unweaving the grid, the marks which compose the image are deconstructed, abstracted into a series of stains, a pattern of untouched and painted thread. By wrapping or weaving the ribbon into new patterns, the marks of the image are re-ordered into new aesthetic configurations. This process is repeated for each letter inthe English Alphabet.




These configurations then become the basis for an additional process which allows further re-imagining of the original information. By taking the height of the line and length of the stain to be the pitch and duration of a note respectively; the marks become a musical score. Instead of simply changing the way the viewer visually reads the original marks - it is possible to change the sense with which they experience them.




The resulting soundscape (playable below) fills a room into which the various artifacts from these processes are placed. The printing blocks on the floor allude to the fact that everything the viewer is seeing and hearing originates from something they fully understand and comprehend.