Always come back with a bang I say ;) Isn't this work just stunning? The artist is Ebon Heath, visiting professor of graphic design at Lehman College in the Bronx, NY. He began with a love of typography and a desire to see it evolve a physicality of its own. His typographical mobiles certainly do this. There's almost a feeling of viewing a living thing, don't you think? I love that the words and letters themselves are the art form; the central entity rather than a facilitative tool. As Heath says:
We use type daily yet rarely appreciate the form of a letter. By liberating type from the confines of the page we not only free the words to express the content in a new dimension of scale, volume, and movement, but also force the reader to become a viewer. This process reveals the form of our letters while creating a new relationship to our language in our ability to feel versus only read the content.
You can view his website, Listening With My Eyes here.
