In his monumental study, Pattern Poetry, Dick Higgins writes “The earliest known pieces that are possibly pattern poems are the two texts on the faces of the ‘Phaistos Disk’…from roughly 1700 B.C”. Andrew Topel’s figures on the pages of Letters Patterns Structures expand the materials and capabilities of this tradition of sign making. Forces held within individual letters radiate, diverge and clump to form buoyant figures that hum with the mechanics of their making.
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