steve roden
letter forms, 2002-2003
solo exhibitions: the another silent green world, pomona college museum of art, 2003
the surface of the moon, suyama space, seattle, washington, 2003
exhibition: treble, the sculpture center, ny, 2004, curated by regine basha

the sculptures in the series 'letter forms' are based on the wave form images created by speaking or singing the letters of the alphabet into a computer. these images were then drawn in pencil and constructed in 3-D using wooden dowels, embroidery thread, glue, and polyurethane. the consonants are all painted a pale blue, while the vowels are colored in relation to rimbaud's poem 'the alchemy of the verb' - black, white, red, blue and green. a set of spoken vowels were originally shown at the stadt galerie in saarbrucken germany as part of the resonanzen exhibition. a larger set of sung vowels was shown at gallery e/static in 2004 as part of the solo exhibition cups into clouds.

each sculpture is approximately 8" - 12" long.

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