Four abstract forms — Pride, Cruelty, Wildness and Boldness — stand in for the psyche of the protagonist in the ballad. Each is built from the Cor-ten offcuts left over from making the sculpture Divnô: the letters cut out to form its text, given a second life.
Characters
A collection of letter aggregates: Pride, Cruelty, Wildness, and Boldness
Cruelty
On their own, the cut letters carry no meaning. We usually only read them once they are grouped into words. Characters takes the opposite route and clusters the letters into shapes that read as forms rather than language.
Wildness
Grouped into these aggregates, the letters become a kind of text you can see but not pronounce. Each cluster asks to be interpreted rather than read — an image standing where a word would be.
Pride
Characters extends the idea started with Divnô: letters pushed past their alphabet into objects that each viewer reads a little differently.
