This arresting letterpress bilingual print on a full-page spread of The New York Times (dated Friday, April 12, 2024) fuses type, color, and newsprint into a layered meditation on media, power, and resistance. Bold, oversized text—each word a political provocation—collides with the headlines beneath it: COEXIST, LOSS, RESIST/RESISTE, DOMINAT/DOMINANTE, and DISINFOR-NATION. Each term is rendered in saturated hues—yellow, blue, black, red, and orange—invoking urgency, censorship, and the fragmentation of truth.
The word PARADIGMS (and its Spanish counterpart PARADIGMAS) arcs across the lower half of the composition in a curved, almost spinning motion—suggesting disruption, reorientation, or collapse. Typography overlaps with the underlying articles about global politics, climate change, and economic power, forming a deliberate tension between message and medium.
Subtle layering and pressure variations expose the process of hand inking and the materiality of the newspaper substrate—ink-bleed, wrinkles, and print texture remind the viewer of the tactile nature of both truth and distortion. This piece becomes both a warning and a call: resist disinformation, reject imposed paradigms, and question the structures that shape what we consume as “news.”
This arresting letterpress bilingual print on a full-page spread of The New York Times (dated Friday, April 12, 2024) fuses type, color, and newsprint into a layered meditation on media, power, and resistance. Bold, oversized text—each word a political provocation—collides with the headlines beneath it: COEXIST, LOSS, RESIST/RESISTE, DOMINAT/DOMINANTE, and DISINFOR-NATION. Each term is rendered in saturated hues—yellow, blue, black, red, and orange—invoking urgency, censorship, and the fragmentation of truth.
The word PARADIGMS (and its Spanish counterpart PARADIGMAS) arcs across the lower half of the composition in a curved, almost spinning motion—suggesting disruption, reorientation, or collapse. Typography overlaps with the underlying articles about global politics, climate change, and economic power, forming a deliberate tension between message and medium.
Subtle layering and pressure variations expose the process of hand inking and the materiality of the newspaper substrate—ink-bleed, wrinkles, and print texture remind the viewer of the tactile nature of both truth and distortion. This piece becomes both a warning and a call: resist disinformation, reject imposed paradigms, and question the structures that shape what we consume as “news.”
2023
19” H x 11” W (48.26 x 27.94 centimeters)
Letterpress print on newspaper
