Assignment 1.5
Sketch Problem


During studio we were given "A Throw Of The Dice" by Mallarmé, given time to read it over a few times, and then instructed to re-arrange it in a meaningful way to us. [original form can be seen here]


Reading through the poem twice, I decided that what I got from it the most was less the meaning of the poem as an entirety but more the rhythm and cadence, and typographic arrangement that enabled one to read it a certain way. So I began cutting up the poem and re-assembling it in the same order but in a separate progression. While not the most radical idea, I just wanted to see for myself whether I could restructure it to a point where I read it in a new way, to give another iteration of a similar idea, but breaking away slightly from the horizontality of the typeset. It also took on a form of it's own outside of a book, vaguely reminding me of a mechanical room, with everything working together (both separately and all simultaneously). The part of the poem where it restated ABOLISH was where I ended this study.