Language and Mathematics

A board with black typographic characters on a white background, arranged in two columns. The left column contains letters of the alphabet, punctuation marks and symbols used in verbal language, while the right column contains numbers and selected mathematical symbols. The typeface imitates typewriter script. The work reflects on the almost unlimited possibilities of generating texts, numbers and mathematical operations from such a small basic set of characters. It also evokes the combinatorial method frequently employed by Dróżdż in his own concept-shapes. The work has been presented as a typescript on paper and as a board on a rigid support with characters printed on paper.