The series of Song of Songs is on view at First Church, Boston, until November 19, 2017.
Some designs keep evolving till they reach where they want to go; others, however, want to have a second, distinct identity that develops in a different direction. The design here is from the same “GARDEN ENCLOSED” scripture shown in a different design at left, but the layout is different. I used rose stems to form the garden enclosure; this gave me the chance to use the many ascenders and descenders* to suggest leaves. I took a chance that making the flower stems slightly crooked would not create an uneven tone of voice in the reader’s ear. I filled the O spaces with orange to look like little fruits in the shrubbery.
*A feature of lower case letters, ascenders go up: b, d, f, h, k, l, and half-way t. Descenders go down: g, j, p, q, y, sometimes f. Sometimes you need to rearrange your layout to give these long lines room to grow; then you will find out what they want to be.
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