Prometheus A

Collage of texts made with Processing. Text fragments come from Aeschylus, ‘Prometheus Bound’ 106 ff, 445 ff (Translation by Smyth); Plato, ‘Protagoras’ 320c — 322a (Translation by Lamb) and ‘Philebus’ 16b (Translation by Fowler); and Euclid, ‘Elements’ Proposition 46 (Translation by Heath).

A celebration of Prometheus’ gift of the arts of Hephaistos and Athena, allowing us to construct, perceive, understand, and burn. Some editions were initially gifted to people who burned "please burn this work". Counterpart to Prometheus B.

Typeface & type design: Philosophie de la Frisonne #2 © Daphne de Vries / Bureau Merkwaardig