Check out these pieces by Carlos Luis. No one has done with block cutting what he has done in these pieces, i.e. the space/s, the edge/s saying more than other uses of the technique (e.g. school bulletin boards, advertizing). Here's the intro to the series:
At what point do shapes resolve themselves into letterforms? What is the smallest unit of visual information that can communicate lexically? How does the perceptual dance of figure and ground affect the way we extract meaning from text?
When you're in love with another person, don't you find yourself studying with passionate intensity the finest detals of the creases in their skin that you can resolve? What poet is not this in love with words? Carlos Luis is this in love.
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