Noodle Alphabet

My children, ages 1 and 4, love to sing their ABC’s.

As I teach them to write G’s and F’s I’m studying my alphabet once again, at age 36. I can’t help but see these letters, these little tools, as both silly and powerful. I love their shape and dressing them up and down in different fonts. I love that someone decided that at Q was a Q and that it generally needs U as a companion.

I look at these little marks that we memorize then assemble, and share across the world and back and forth across time. They remind me that we can make anything. And beginning with simple marks is a good way to start.

This mini series of paintings is the result of a little play around those ideas.

4.21.2023