bpNicol did a whole concrete poetry booklet on the letter H. It was a love affair; he’d always been enamoured of H since he was a child, when the infactuation first struck. It was a really interesting composition. There are many ways to love a letter, as he amply illustrated.

Now J, oh there are possibilities…

There’s iron in the water here. This area was the center of iron production in the world for a few brief decades in the early 19th century.

I spent sometime fooling around with Photoshop, and might use some of the results. I like what one can do with the “liquify” effects. I’m not averse to drawing, but my scanner is broken.

On the image, hmmn, enhanced photo with books in the background, nice, and nice red lips (meaning good iron, or so I’ve been told), if you don’t want to try your hand at drawing, how about some of those neat filters also… in watercolour, or neon glow, or mezzotint? Or, oh, oh, the lighting effects one, one of my favourites. So many possibilities.

Natalie – True, but I think numbers or bar-coded labels would be more likely. I did once see a guy with a bar-coded label tatooed on the back of his neck, as a matter of fact.

Jean – Menacing, eh? Maybe it’s the Bluebeard associations?