The wonderful “Typographic Ballet” of Ebon Heath

Ebon Heath, an artist from Brooklyn, New York, has a striking obsession with words, typography and language. His project, Stereo.type (1994 - now) explores the compositional potentiality of typography in a three dimensional space, representing a ‘visual poetry’, that he dubs it “Typographic Ballet”. Ebon's arrangements with all its mystical power and beauty appear as the inner work of subconscious dealing with various words of wisdom, proverbs and mottoes. Ebon's hanging mobiles, dancing like a ballerina, provide various juxtapositions of these words, creating a Derridean trace of scattered hermeneutic margins. His rhythmical typography, like a double helix of a DNA structure contain in itself a powerful creative force that bursts like a Super Nova with energy.

 

 

 

See a video of  Ebon's work here