For this six week experimentation project I wanted to work with materials that I have not used before and also work with photography to develop my skills and visually record the process. This project was introduced at a particularly colorful time of year Autumn; and this inspired me to create six completely unique typefaces using natural materials found outside. I collected a large variation in size; color and textured leaves, berries, flowers, small branches and twigs, acorns, nuts and structured each set of letters free hand. I chose to create each letter freehand because I felt this would be less controlled than photographing the materials and photoshopping the letters into shapes. For this project I spent a lot of time outside in fields, parks, forests and paid attention to the patterns and movement in nature and attempted to express that. I also captured the natural color contrast in nature so I could use these in my Journal.
GoldLeaf Crisp Experiment One
I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go, not one lasts. - carl Sandburg
Pine Reef Experiment Two
Approach of Winter
The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go or driven like hail stream bitterly out to one side and fall where the salvias, hard carmine-like no leaf that ever was-edge the bare garden.
- William Carlos Williams
Berrie Red Experiment Three
Clouded with snow
The cold winds blow, And shrill on leafless bough
The robin with its burning breast
Alone sings now.
The rayless sun, Day’s journey done,
Sheds its last ebbing light
On fields in leagues of beauty spread
Unearthly white.
Thick draws the dark, And spark by spark,
The frost-fires kindle, and soon
Over that sea of frozen foam
Floats the white moon.
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Winter
Walter de la Mare
Mango Curl Cut Experiment Four
AUTUMN WOODS
by James S. Tippett
I like the woods
In autumn When dry leaves hide the ground, When the trees are bare And the wind sweeps by With a lonesome rushing sound. I can rustle the leaves In autumn And I can make a bed In the thick dry leaves That have fallen From the bare trees Overhead.
Autunm Aura Experiment Five
Down, Down
By Eleanor Farjean
Down, down Yellow and brown
The leaves are falling Over the town.
Burgandy Brown Experiment Six
x Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most freindship if feigning, most loving mere folly: Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then heigh-ho, the holly!
