Artist: Seth / Ezra Dager
Year: 2012–2013
Medium: Single-channel digital video
Status: Complete
Archive Context: The Field Archive

Overview

Letters (Falling) is a typographic video work examining how identity persists through fragmentation and return. Originally created as a large-scale runway projection, the work separates a word into its individual letterforms, allowing them to fall continuously across the screen.

As the sequence unfolds, the letters accumulate, overlap, and drift beyond their original arrangement. The composition loses its immediate readability while each individual element remains unchanged.

Nothing is removed.

Only the relationships shift.

After sustained movement, the dispersed letterforms gradually resolve into a recognizable whole before beginning the cycle again.

The work does not preserve a fixed identity.

It preserves the conditions under which identity repeatedly becomes visible.

Position

Letters (Falling) demonstrates that structure can survive dispersion.

The letters remain constant.

Their relationships continually change.