Syncretic Forms are three-dimensional letterforms cast from a base of over 300 global writing systems. Each sculpture collapses characters drawn from multiple scripts into a single icon; a hybrid glyph that belongs to no one language yet carries the trace of many. Rendered as 3D-printed objects, they make visible the cultural syncretism at the heart of the Polyglot system: the idea that writing, like identity, is never singular but layered, borrowed, and continually reformed. What emerges is a new vocabulary of marks (familiar and unplaceable at once) that asks where one script ends and another begins.
 
Title: Syncretic Form XI
Artist: Ben Sheppee
Edition: 15 – numbered, signed (bottom)
Size: 37.5cm (height) 19cm (width) 8cm (depth)
Medium: PLA matte
Printed: May 2026
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