The Garden EPLVLEREPRAETERITORVM (Latin; in English: from the dust of the past)
The Garden EPLVLEREPRAETERITORVM (Latin; in English: from the dust of the past)
Installation, 23 letters, 3d prints. June, 2014
Languages and scripts, like plant and animal species, are also subject to change.
Their territories grow and shrink and subdivide and fuse, but there are none
that are not mortal, none that will not someday be extinct. Robert Bringhurst
In the project I worked with metaphorical representation of extinct language: Roman alphabet for Latin language at the time of its prosperity (around A.D. 113).
I transcoded the original 3D medium of that time letters (Roman capitals carved in the inscription on the base of the Trajan’s Column monument) in contemporary context with the application of 3D printing to their production. To bring the letter sounds back to an extinct alphabet I applied the data from the alphabet sound records to distort the 3-dimensional letter models. A powder was used as a material for 3d prints, to recreate the past letters, metaphorically, by building them layer by layer ‘from the dust of the past’.
Installation, 23 letters, 3d prints. June, 2014
Languages and scripts, like plant and animal species, are also subject to change.
Their territories grow and shrink and subdivide and fuse, but there are none
that are not mortal, none that will not someday be extinct. Robert Bringhurst
In the project I worked with metaphorical representation of extinct language: Roman alphabet for Latin language at the time of its prosperity (around A.D. 113).
I transcoded the original 3D medium of that time letters (Roman capitals carved in the inscription on the base of the Trajan’s Column monument) in contemporary context with the application of 3D printing to their production. To bring the letter sounds back to an extinct alphabet I applied the data from the alphabet sound records to distort the 3-dimensional letter models. A powder was used as a material for 3d prints, to recreate the past letters, metaphorically, by building them layer by layer ‘from the dust of the past’.
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