The Sacred Abecedarium

Jeff Morin, Art and Design, in collaboration with Steven Ferlauto, art director for the Berkley Publishing Group in New York, has put together a bound portfolio of 26 engravings representing the Roman alphabet. The portfolio, The Sacred Abecedarium, is now showing at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London which houses the largest such collection in the world. The engravings are also on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A UPDC grant of $2,800 helped fund the showings. The engravings also have been added to several collections in the U.S. and Europe. A set of the engravings has been donated to the University Library where it will be catalogued and kept in the Rare Book Room located on the sixth floor. Twenty-six copies plus five commemorative copies make up the entire collection printed on handmade papers. The book contains 34 engravings that describe the sacred geometric influence on the development of a Roman alphabet. Ferlauto conducted the mathematical research over the past 16 years, and Morin, through the use of collage and gouache (opaque watercolor), interpreted the drawings. Both contributed text to the project.

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