we were tasked with creating an alphabet out of nothing but found objects around our house. This was a lot harder than I thought it would be initially. It took me quite a while to gather enough objects that fit together to create something that looked like a letter. This task provided me with a newfound outlook on the objects around me, it reminded me of being a child and seeing faces, numbers and letters in so many objects that I would simply overlook now. I tried to use as many different objects as possible when completing my alphabet, this way when creating phrases the letters would look unique and no two would be made from the same objects, this also made the task more challenging. I like some of the letters more than others such as the J which was made from the jawbone of a fox and the cap from an inhaler, I also really like the F made from a tattoo machine and a broken pencil.

I took the image into a drawing application and carefully drew the shape of each letter with a solid black fill to make it stand out from the stark white background as much as possible. I really enjoy how this turned out, I think that it makes the letters super clear and crisp. I particularly like how the C turned out when I did this.

Our second task was to create short phrases or words from the alphabet that we made, however due to the repetition of some letters I needed to repurpose some of the objects to make some more letters, but due to the diverse range of objects that I used to make the alphabet all the letters looked different enough. For the first saying I did “Seven Wonders” which is not only the name of a Fleetwood Mac song but it also refers to magical forces often practiced in witchcraft, this is something that I’m quite interested in therefore this seemed like a perfect phrase. I also incorporated the word “Lisztomania” which refers to an obsessive and or compelling nature of music. Due to the meaning I created a heart out of a pair of headphones which I think was a fun complement to the word. The last phrase is a reflection on the victimization of society and a quote I love by Marilyn Manson “We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.” I have always found this to be quite a shocking quote yet one that contains so much truth and I wanted to share it though my found type.

I took one of the phrases into a drawing program and did the same thing I previously did with the alphabet, I thought that it worked well with the alphabet so I did it once again. I also did two diverse drawings, one coloured pencil and the other biro pen. These were my two favourite letters and therefore i wanted to draw them. I spent about an hour on the F as I wanted to capture the shine of the metal and the matte contrast of the pencil. with the J I spent a few minutes shading the areas that had more depth and adding some shadows to make it look like the object rather than capturing a realistic rendering.