Printed various ampersands with "and"s letterforms on 2.5" x 3.5" Lettra paper courtesy of a Chandler & Price letterpress machine. Then I hand-cut a larger ampersand shape out of the grouping, producing a positive and negative relationship. The Ampersand Diversity series pairs each diptych together based on the paint swatch names. The ampersand is one of the most powerful symbols of visual communication. In a time when many people look to take away other people's freedoms and exclude rights to love and of identity, the ampersand's role is to bring people and things together in an inclusive way. Why subtract when you can add?

letterpress printing

Evelyn Davis-Walker