“Someone tell me what to do” written in CRH Shorthand

letterpress print, 8×10”

Letterpress print, wider than it is tall. A roughly rectangular field is filled with an unstable composition of angular red shapes with imperfectly straight edges, touching each other at their corners and sides. Some of the red shapes are squares or triangles; others are rectangles or other elongated shapes, often bent in the middle at sharp angles. The white spaces between them are spiky, like lightning bolts or maple leaves.

Words suggested by my friend Alice Jo, in a conversation about being in our mid-20s and confused about our lives.

This uses my shorthand system, stylized to make the shapes bold and angular and to make the words touch each other. Drag the slider below to separate the words, turn them into a more normal style, and separate the letters: