“Handwritten: Every letter tells a story”
Using pencil and eraser, Paris Koutsikos draws letters.
Each design follows the shape and dynamics of the letter without however being clear from the start where it will end up. The components of each composition emerge along the way based more on intuition, balance and humor than on any logical conclusion.
Fatefully, the result is surrealistic compositions made up of familiar but also non-existent objects, mysterious shapes, imaginary animals, faces and body parts cut off and isolated, aesthetics that refer to comics but also to psychedelia, conditions of weightlessness, visual games, intense shadows, decorations elements borrowed from various cultures, forms that simply serve the balance of the composition, and all "sprinkled" with playfulness and humor - black sometimes.
The purpose of the project is not entirely clear.
The first pursuit was of course the design of a series of modern archigrams.
Along the way, however, it evolves into a practical and intellectual exercise and at the same time into a design study of volumes and light.
The combination of letters to form words gives another dynamic to the visual aesthetics of each word.
