The task for this trip was to document any examples of negative space, silhouettes and sculptural typographic forms observed on this trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Hepworth, using photography, sketches and any other appropriate method of documentation.
Working in a small group, we decided to use perspective in order to create a letterform making use of our surroundings in the sculpture park (Fig. 1). This was achieved by wrapping masking tape around various trees at different heights and with this we created the letter Z when looked at a specific angle. However, when looked at different angles this also created a letter X or no letterforms at all. For this, we took inspiration from the work of Stefan Sagmeister. Although, the letterform was fairly compressed due to not being able to reach higher levels on the trees.
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Fig. 1. Wrapping masking tape around trees at different levels to create
the letterform Z - inspired by Stefan Sagmeister. |
Not only did we create our own letterforms within the sculpture park, but we also found existing letterforms within individual sculptures, such as Henry Moore's 'Large Two Forms' through the use of it's negative space.
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Henry Moore - Large Two Forms (1966)
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Letterforms O and J created using the negative space of Henry Moore's
sculpture, Large Two Forms.
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| Letterforms P and r created from the same sculpture. |
Letterforms could also be found in Barbara Hepworth's sculpture series 'Family of Man', such as the letters o, l, and i.
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| Barbara Hepworth - Family of Man (1970) |
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| Barbara Hepworth - Family of Man (1970) |
I decided to not only document these sculptures in photographic forms, but also through the use of collage using basic shapes and a minimal colour palette to represent these sculptures, which could then also help in creating a potential typeface.
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| Example of research trip documentation in sketchbook. |
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