Abstrait - REDUX

REDUX is an ode to the Universe.

A collection of prints, videos and lyrics to focus on the extreme fascination that cosmic bodies, events and scale use to invoke.

15 pieces, each one further divided into 5 views: full composition, lowercase and uppercase lettering grids, alternative piece in super saturated colors and typesetting composition with lyrics.

In addition to every piece of the series, I've designed an ornamental typography called Abstrait Redux used to create mesmerising lettering grids.

I started the idea and design in the Winter of 2015, but the video compositions and lyrics writing kept the project alive until the end of 2020.

1

Anathema and Lysis for Zenithal Concerns

- MERCURY -

up or down or North or South
been around and fallen to the ground

been around with head over shoulders
fallen down while the flesh smolders

seen the skies of space while I wandered
off planets in a return trip I'm floundered

I'm an astronaut, better yet a conqueror
peeking into some stars as a trier yet a conjuror

and though in space I can't fall nor be risen
maybe swallowed into a black hole and imprisoned

that is all... that is all my fate:
sky'll be down while I dissipate

2

Völva

- VENUS -

though I’m a blind spy
with a burning eye
you see me on your sky
though I don’t want to pry

there’s a luminance I can’t deny
that makes everything spry
I can see through every passerby
but I won’t specify
that even in the purest soul nearby
there’s wrong and there’s right
there’s a potency to fructify
and an orbit to simplify
clearing out every lie
to let you say goodbye

3

Knowledgewise

- EARTH -

you have been granted a blue treasure to mother
with liveliness all around, esemplastic verve
that will bound you to self-consciousness
which will lead you to wisdom and poise

in the only place nearby
with the only beings
aware of stargazing
—conterminous—
as much as
we know
so far

4

Endorphin Hubot

- MARS -

battle reseeding
history repeating
my corpse floating
remainders awaiting

I was human once
but I felt a dunce
then I fought my mindd
and noticed I was blind

my body boundary is human
sallow to the eyes of space
in a vastness I’m no yeoman
all I learn leads me to efface

ashen facing proof
endorphin would translate
human become robot
hubot being dilate

5

The

...Remote...

Face of God

- JUPITER -

if there’s a God
I won’t be wrong
to say there’s not
a place of its own

because

everything we know
everywhere we’ll go
everytime we grow
we’ll set us aglow

there’s not a spot
so remote
like the face of God
the place you’re now

6

All Radii of

Our Tidal Resonance

- SATURN -

while your planet overtakes mine
with a slender radius of gravity
it captures my rocky body
inside your cosmic veil of pull
expands my whole… dilates my seas
draws my chains… towards your mass
to start to dance… across the stars

7

Meiosis

- URANUS -

maybe universe is infinite
maybe it’s light-years wide
maybe planets don’t geminate
maybe uteri and penises were elided

but cosmos has ways to duplicate
to have all its expanse leveraged
maybe it’s a form to avoid vacate
without their bodies hemorrhaged

8

Distance

(Or the Faux Void We Are)

- NEPTUNE -

nurtured by aeons in solitude
amongst unstated bits of life
to multiply in plenitude
and avert a spark of strife
distances and voids collude
to conceal a chunk of light
but then all is spewed
and void is manured entire

9

Departure IX:

Parts Apart

- PLUTO (AND CHARON) -

pluto (and charon) were once our family
but some wanted them banished without jubilee
pluto was the ninth out of eight grownup emcees
when dwellers from the third started a killing spree

10

Adlátere

- THE MOON -

she’s with me
she’s always by my side
she stares at me night and day
and she takes all the threats away
she takes my seas and heats to weigh
thus I have a safe pathway
and I’m not another stray
`cause she never misplays
and I can stay

11

Projectile

~

Volatile

~

Meteorite

~

Pulsatile

- COMET -

I’m straight to you
relentlessly I cross the nights
I don’t breathe I don’t sleep
I even lose parts of me

I’ve no finish line
no time to stop by
I exhaust my vim
and don’t know why

12

SpaceSpentNot

- THE STARS -

transfixed it's not
but you are
rotated cannot
but you can
convoluted why
but you are

space spent not
as neither yours
enough is not
though you'd want
today you won't
spend this space not

no matter where you are
in our sky or in outer space
or just another place
in case you wonder
what so much space is for
for the time being
it's space spent not

13

A Jillion Æquinoxes

- THE SUN -

three hundred and sixty degrees
we have to choose our orbital angle
adjust how long our nights will be
disperse this coveting and just ogle

a million, a jillion, a trillion nights
unending times to shatter and mingle
a sunrise a day reunites and ignites
and endurance will make us all tingle

14

Plena Vacuua

- BLACK HOLE -

I once crossed a frontier
a limit to adhere
and exploded in tears

it’s unclear that a pioneer
could appear in a cosmos near
if he crosses my rear

I’m like a sphere
that you can’t spear
throughout your career

so please revere
DON’T COME HERE
since I’m not your pier

15

Luminary

- GALAXY -

in this immense extent of emptiness
once upon a second something sparkled
it lasted nothing, not even a billion years
but it scattered everything with sustenance

then, just as it was born, it died
not with silence but with a raging blaze
bursting all the life it itself had nurtured
it happened once and will happen again

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