The Letter "Ё"

This three-dimensional letter was created during the exhibition project "Thirty-Three Characters". I think that this name does not quite correspond to the content. 33 characters is the number of letters in the Russian alphabet, but the exhibition project was dedicated to the Cyrillic alphabet as a whole. The Cyrillic alphabet is one of the ancient alphabets, it has 43 letters. However, this number is also not accurate, because the alphabets of different languages are a living organism and are constantly changing.

The Cyrillic letter "Ё" is something in between the letters "E" and "O", similar to "Yo". Or not quite... I started to tell what kind of letter it is on the example of the English alphabet, but I realized that I was doing something wrong. So I just copied a transcription of this letter: |' o|.

This letter seems to me very beautiful in terms of graphics and sound. But it can be called the most deprived letter in the Russian alphabet. This sound was not considered a separate letter for a long time and was transmitted in writing with the letter "E". And even after this letter was officially recognized and took its rightful place in the alphabet, it continued to be printed as "E" in books and newspapers for a long time. This changed only recently, with the advent of digital printing.

The author of this installation is designer and artist Andrey Lublinsky. This is what he tells about his work:

“It was much easier for me to come up with a large volume Yo than to write a text. Frankly speaking, I don't have any special relationship with the Cyrillic alphabet, I like letters in principle, and I don't care about Cyrillic or Latin letters. As an artist, I look at a letter not as a unit of information but as a graphic element, a pattern, or even better, an object. And the suggestion to make a sculpture out of a letter seemed tempting to me at once; it is a wonderful idea to create a three-dimensional alphabet.”

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