.. is a sign language sailors use to communicate over long distance at sea, where the sound of a voice is lost. Through different positionings of the arms, a code is made up and each letter is 'acted' out. Having worked a lot with the concept of different kinds of alphabets..this particular series of Illustrations does not make use of any letterforms. The puppetlike Figures let the viewer guess the letter each one represents through their appearance.

woodcut, collage, silk screenprint

"click" on each letter to get to the next in the alphabet.