Abridged series

With each artwork, the specific design layout of the text is then translated onto archival watercolour paper at a precise 1:1 scale resulting in a flat geometric design which have connotations to land survey/ mapping/ architectural plans, as well as to 20th century modernist geometric abstract painting. Due to their formal centralised/ justified titles, most book cover compositions have a symmetrical quality, akin to it could be said, late medieval and renaissance altarpieces and the Christian symbol of the cross. Furthermore, the content of the book is inadvertently referenced through the subjective selection of colours from paintings by the renaissance artist being discussed in the publication.

The geometric artworks have a formal and architectural orderliness, due to their compositions being taken from the size and scale of the horizontal text on the book’s inside cover. Furthermore, the resultant geometric shapes are physically cut out, akin to 15 & 16th century floor marquetry, yet the content of the publications discuss renaissance developments of describing illusionary space on a two dimensional surface.