For letters that we are easily familiar with everyday, it is very interesting how foreign they can become with the mere misplacement of their construction. Nico Vassilaskis's negative alphabet plays with both visual cognitive abilities and observation.It was very interesting to me the seemingly new symbols that can take form with the use of variant misplacement of the familiar. At what point can we no longer see something that is recognizable? The glance at what was once a letter suddenly takes a moment or two to think about and figure what latter it actiually is. Letters like B, L and even I become visual puzzles that were once familiar and now strange to the human eye. Some are so foreign that it may take referencing the previous or next letters to note what it is you are looking at, at least for me. It was a very clever and simple visual trick on something we seem to know from our day to day lives. I wonder if an essay were to be written with that set of letters, would it appear like a different language all together?