Keikichi Honna has been hard at work in his Deutschland “cave”, completing an artist residency over the past several weeks. We just received the latest update, with images of his latest installation.

Here’s an excerpt from his always hilarious emails:

This is painting of “Data Matrix,” or 2D barcode, which encodes German text translated from my following Englisch writing.

In German
Every letter has right and duty
Every word is pronounced as it should be
Let Knopf be Knopf

In German
Typeface is as black as a night at a forest
No legal limit is set for word length
Let them call for Mississippi Steam Boat Company Captain (this would be one long hell of a word in German) in the dark

In German
Vowels have crowns (or 2-bit in my own term)
Consonant are strong and clear
Don’t let me say a German word
I’ll spit in your face

97″ x 97″ acrylic on the wall
no more straight lines on uneven walls!