• Forever Amber at Zebra Crossing / Jeffrey Instone
Forever Amber at Zebra Crossing / Jeffrey Instone Forever Amber at Zebra Crossing / Jeffrey Instone Forever Amber at Zebra Crossing / Jeffrey Instone

Forever Amber at Zebra Crossing / Jeffrey Instone

Pamphlet bindings

FA.B43.0912
Fine Art Collection
29.8 x 21 cm
1991
Jeffrey Instone
JPR Instone Publications
computer art, pamphlet bindings
Pamphlet bound with staple fold binding; light grey wrappers. "Fascicular excerpta from a computer coined Abecedary."--Front matter. "Forever Amber at Zebra Crossing is formed from eight short scripts which were first arranged as a form of 'tape loop' to provide a plentiful supply of raw if repetitive material for a large studio based collage. However a developing interest in the wide range of fragmentation, compositional and typographic attributes of computer 'desktop publishing' programs, led me to transfer the eight fragment of text to disk to 're-release' them via two edited printer fonts adapted from standard typefaces to become re-formed as hieroglyphic letterforms; replacing the original text with one which was, as a consequence, largely indecipherable (even with the aid of subtitles). The process is one which can be applied to every letter, number or punctuation mark ever printed from disk, and moreover it can be almost infinitely varied or redefined according to whim; this modest booklet is published more as a serving suggestion than an exhaustive 'compendium of possibilities'. Forever Amber at Zebra Crossing was composed on an Atari ST using SoftLogik DTP programs and public domain font editing software."--AfterWord.