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Published in The Flux Review — Interview and Feature

Ben Sheppee / Flux Review

I was featured in The Flux Review — a collectable magazine covering art, culture, and world exploration. The feature included an interview and a selection of work, placing the practice within the magazine's broader editorial context of contemporary art and creative travel.

The Interview

The conversation covered the development of the typographic practice — how an archive of over 300 global alphabets became the foundation for work that spans immersive installation, print, and generative digital environments. We discussed the research process, the tension between systematic and intuitive approaches to composition, and the personal dimensions of working with language as someone exploring questions of origin and identity.

What I appreciated about The Flux Review's approach was their interest in the why behind the work, not just the what. The questions pushed into territory that standard exhibition texts don't always reach — the relationship between the fine art practice and the commercial work through Observatory, the influence of living in San Francisco, Tokyo, and Paris on how I think about cultural exchange, and the role of technology as both tool and subject.

Print as Context

Being published in a physical magazine — a collectable, designed object — feels appropriate for work that's fundamentally about the material properties of written form. There's a circularity to it: work that investigates how letters function as visual objects, reproduced in a medium where typography and image design are inseparable from the reading experience.

The Flux Review has a readership that spans art collectors, cultural travellers, and design professionals — an audience that engages with visual work through a lens of curiosity rather than pure market interest. That kind of context serves the practice well.

© 2026 BenSheppee

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