Having converted the 30 body positions of the semaphore system into wave forms, we designed a font usable in any Roman-alphabet text system, and “translated” the last chapter of Brinig’s novel into a continuous wave form. In late 2023 we returned to exposing photo-lithographic plates with the sun, translating the wave system into patterns of enlarged halftone dots via a purpose-built “wave machine” that works at changing angles to produce 30 patterns; combined plates display all 30 figures, and we are now making short “flicker films” that recall the structural films of the 1960s and ’70s.
Follows from The Flutter of an Eyelid (2022).