Asemic alphabet
by Eleanor Matthews
The Aescemic Alphabet:
Using a random number generator, I combined aspects from different letters of the Roman alphabet, creating 26 new letters. I
then defined each letter- the definitions beginning with the classic ‘apple’ and ‘balloon’ and progressing as the book goes on
to more obscene and surrealist phrases- making very little translatable sense by the time you reach the new ‘Z’
. I then took my
new letters and definitions and ran them through a poorly trained AI image generator to get the graphics you see- producing an
unsettling attempt at a children’s book.
