Campbell, Ken: Broken Rules and Double Crosses A visit to Jerusalem prompted this exploration of a diagram that allows the visualisation of the many variations of an articulated Christian cross. I designed and made a printer’s forme for the special structure implied. The forme was duplicated so that the design could be printed in pairs. The limbs are formed from painfully snapped, unchamfered pica printing rules in groups of ten overprinted at the centre up to four times to give a near sculptural build-up of ink, and a consequent variety of blacks. All but three of the versions of this animated cross have a left- or right-hand equivalent: a twin. These twins are printed on a sheet that is then folded to isolate each from the other.
en., letterpress, silkscreen, printed linen in a linen cartridge, 112p, 18,9 x 13 inch, Ed. of 50, num., sign., London, 1984 Request of availability backnext