Inspired by the famous Czech writer and poet Karel Hynek Mácha and his poem ‘May’. I created an illustrated alphabet, in which every character illustrates words which appear in the poem. Afterwards, I cut the alphabet to pieces and rearranged them into new characters, which now represent the concrete stories. via
Late 16th c Giacomo Paolini (Italian ) ~ Grotesque Alphabet in Mythological Landscapes
A- Ateone changedinto a stagbyDiana B- Bacchus triumphant C-Cadmusturned into snakewithhis wife D-Daedalus, Icarus E-AeneascarryinghisfatherAnchisesonhis shoulders F-Phaeton, The chariot of thesun G-GanymedeabductedbyZeus H-Herculesentering Hell slayingCerberus I-Iphigenialedto thesacrifice L-Lycaonturned intowolf M- The avarice ofKingMidas N-Narcissusbecomesaflower O- The beautiful sounds of Orpheus and Lamet P- The death of Pyram andThisbe Q-Fifthsection R-Rololo and Remus, foundersofRome S-Serena T- Aruabe deceiving Terseo the Minotaur V-Pluto, Venus andCupid Z-Zarantani