The Letters are a body of work in their own right within A Decorated Woman: twenty-six typographic pieces, one per letter, each built by reducing a photographed jewelry fragment from the original portrait down to its letterform — one woman's story condensed into a single sign. The alphabet also works: these letters recur throughout the site, assembled into the words that make up Love Notes.
The Letters
A | Sister Rosetta Tharpe
A | Artemisia Gentileschi
B | Elizabeth Taylor
C | Madeleine Albright
D | Martha Stewart
D | Marie Curie
E | Frida Kahlo
F | Alek Wek
G | Ruth Bader Ginsburg
H | Malala
I | Fatima Al-Fihriya
I | Eleanor Roosvelt
J | Madonna
K | Wu Zetian
L | Letizia Battaglia
M | Oprah
N | Gladys West
N | Ada Lovelace
O | Mother Mary
O | Ida B Wells
P | Rachel Carson
Q | Yayoi Kusama
R | Valentina Tereškova
R | Elizabeth II
S | Zaha Hadid
S | Rose McGowan
T | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
T | Divine Rising
U | Dolly Parton
V | Mother Nature
W | Sister Rosetta Tharpe
X | Justin Vivian Bond
Y | Mona Lisa
Z | Hedy Lamarr