The Essential Nature of the Letter

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I haven't mentioned it here, but one of the classes I'm in this semester is ARTT100 – "Fundamentals of 2-D Design". The latest assignment centers around making a piece with a single letter in a square. This reminded the teacher of a story from when he was in his freshman art class, and his teacher was introducing a similar assignment.

Now, I want you to choose a letter. R, say, or Q, or P. And I want you to really get into that letter, the essential R-ness of the letter, or Q-ness, or....