Introducing ALAW2010

A Letter A Week is a small challenge, project or experiment that we have set ourselves.  The original project started small but is growing, and is primarily about having fun, experimenting and having a regular, small project to focus on each week.

The aim is simply to:

• Write/create a letter a week
• Creating 52 letters
• Which must form 2 x alphabets (that is not 52 x the letter ‘A’)
• By the end of 2010

The only real rule is that the letter must be presented on a piece of material measuring 7cm x 7cm

• We can use any medium, on any surface.
• We can use any hand or representation of a letter.
• The presentation of the final product is up to each of us – we could mat and frame the pieces as a work of art; we could make a stack of cards; we could bind them individually; we could bind them in a book; we could cover a box with them....
• We can also use any theme or approach we wish in the project – we may choose to do all our letter in black and white and red; we may choose not to repeat a combination of medium and surface; we may choose to be experimental; we may choose an animal theme; we may choose a letter linked to a poem....
• We may start at the beginning of the alphabet, the end of the alphabet, we may make two alphabets simultaneously or we may just decide that today feels like a “D” day and decide to write a “D”

Depending on how we go, and where we are, and how many we have, and what our final pieces look like; it might be nice to try and arrange a showing or mini-exhibition of the pieces once we have finished. We can explore this option through the year.

We will also aim to do a monthly sharing – on the first Wednesday of a month, we will share photos of our letters from the previous month.