The marvel of “objective chance” André Breton discovered in Lautréamont—“the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table”—is present multifold in illustrated dictionaries but obscured by the illustrations’ didactic subservience to the text.
See Section was produced by scanning the pages of a dictionary, digitally removing the text, and keeping the illustrations in place in transparent layers.
Layering every graphic in the dictionary produced an extremely dense montage (below). To alleviate the congestion, I have divided the results into alphabetical sections.
The whole set is compiled into an artist’s book. T-shirt versions available.
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