Dom Sylvester Houédard, Gripfreak, 1972

Dom Sylvester Houédard

Gripfreak, 1972

Typestract

21.8 x 17.0 cm

Provenance

1924, Guernsey, Channel Islands–1992, Gloucester, England

Made on an Olivetti Lettera 22, dsh’s ‘typestract’ (typewriter + abstract) poems turn the typewriter from a machine of writing into an instrument of visual expression. Through repeated dash punctuation marks, dsh constructs a shifting optical structure of intersecting planes.

William Allen Collection

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