Six and Twenty-Six Letters is a double-sided black-only print on A4 paper. It can be downloaded for free from the Library catalogue and sent to print. Or, a paper copy can be borrowed from the librarian and duplicated on the photocopier. Either way, the work-in-waiting occupies the centre of the paper while instructions annotate the un-used areas of the A4 sheet. The piece can be completed in the library or taken away to finish.
Playing to the crease as a mirror line, this minimal poem inverts the second-half of its very brief content, asking the 'C' to be read twice over, to express the logic of the alphabet in just 6 letters. The work spins together two unlikely referents: a postcard by English concrete poet Stuart Mills that reads "A B C D E T C"; and an artwork by American conceptual artist Jospeh Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, whose didactic tone also called attention to “the thing in itself, a representation of the thing, and a general concept of the thing”.
A facsimile version of the work was re-published in 2018, and can be downloaded for home printing below.
