Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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I am ruminating on the letter ‘Z.’ Zed. The end. Z as in ’zenith:’ the end of things; the high point signifying the end. It is linear, it could even be a kind of ‘N’ if you rotated it in either direction, just a wider or more flattened ‘N.’ Also, the equidistant lines connected by the center line between the opposite ends could represent a short cut. The letter doesn’t change between the lower and upper case. Also, the sounds ZOOM!, ZAP! and ZING! represented textually in comic books could be an interesting idea to work in visually. I see the movement of the letter as being either graceful or rigid; graceful like a mumuration of birds, or rigid like the progress narrative. I’m not sure which form is more prominent in the shape of letter, if one is. It is also the sound of sleep. And small flying insects. I think it definitely zips through the air. It would be interesting to try to animate that.


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