The silent alphabet
Paulus Maassen makes alphabets, essentially, without content or meaning. What interests him is the
often simple formal vocabulary, and the fact that we tend to bypass the visual quality of letters and
signs because we are mainly focused on the content-based meaning of letters, words and sentences.
In his work, form, colour, structure and rhythm are what matter most — and it is precisely in their
simplicity that these signs lose none of their expressive power. A sign needs very little to function: a
line, a corner, a repetition is enough to immediately evoke associations with writing, with meaning,
with something that ought to be “read.” That tension between minimal form and the suggestion of
language interests him more than any elaborate visual language ever could.

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