I.C. Works On Paper

Be Unpronounceable
selected papers,blue pencil,graphite, ink
2025

I’m slowly cutting, bending,folding, and continuing to weave the paper into unusual shapes. Some of the hybrid letter forms are hinged like eccentric book pages. Other letter shapes are woven and laminated together to accentuate the various paper fabrics.
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The work is always intricate and incredibly slow. I keep reimagining an interactive analog book as the main creative theme, while intuitively mapping my way through this making process until nothing more can be subtracted or added.

“Where I create, there I am true.”
~Rumi

Collage Sketches ☕️
Concepts for Pronouncing Shapes -Alternative Literacies

Whenever I’m writing letter forms, I’m instantly aware that I’m engaged in a structured drawing process. There’s something fundamental to drawing letters that holds and guides my attention. It’s more than just the meditative tracing of templated characters.Each small architectural element of my alphabet becomes a subtle instrument, modulating how I read and speak before and after I take each breath.