New Editions — Language in Three Dimensions
- Ben Sheppee
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The sculptural works have been in development for over a year. Today the first editions are available.
These are typographic forms — drawn from the same alphabet research that underpins Polyglot, Syncretism, and Morphemes — rendered in three dimensions as limited editions using high-resolution 3D printing.

The Conceptual Premise
The flat works in my practice present language as surface — encountered frontally, existing in a defined relationship to the picture plane.
The sculptures change that relationship entirely. A letterform in three dimensions is no longer a mark on a surface. It is an object in space — with mass, with shadow, with a back you cannot see from the front. You encounter it differently depending on where you stand.

The Editions
Editions of ten to fifteen. Produced from renewable resources (corn, cassava, sugarcane) converted / polymerized into a PLA material used in a 3d printer at maximum resolution, finished by hand, signed and numbered. Priced in a similar range to the archival print editions — accessible rather than rarefied, made to be collected and lived with.
