Passion – collaged text from Romeo & Juliet

Rage – collaged text from Romeo & Juliet

Left frame – Silkscreen print. Type set in Adobe Garamond 14pt. Right frame – Collage.

The text of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet was read and categorised into three emotional states – passion, rage & solace. Once theses new columns of text were typeset & printed (the below sheets) I set about breaking down each of these emotional states to form the collages above. ‘Breaking down’ meant cutting the text so no recognisable letterform remained.