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The Universal Alphabet
The Universal Alphabet was a project I began (probably) in 1993 in Camberwell, South East London, then continued in Maida Vale in West London in 1994 for about another year on and off, before petering out.
The Alphabet consisted of hardboard cards, usually 6 x 9 cm, painted with acrylic paints.
They are accompanied by an alphabet and a set of numbers which are about 2.5 cm x 2.5 cm in size.
The cards depicted images intended to have an elemental salience. I`d hoped they might be combined to suggest narratives or convey messages, or be used in a game, the rules of which might be defined by the players themselves. In the course of painting them, however, these objectives were often forgotten and my own subjective ends took over.
The inspiration came from Victorian parlour games and Ladybird books- these filtered through Paul Auster (specifically City of Glass from the New York Trilogy), and the surrealism of Magritte.
A few of these cards have already featured on this blog: I shall now post them all online in about 30 different posts, in no specific order.
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Tangentially related to these cards these is a simple jigsaw, which I shall also post in due course.
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