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Valentine’s Day by way of Samuel Beckett…$9

I went to see Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape not too long ago at BAM.  Rather transfixing, especially the repeated passage that is more or less the piece’s climax:

“We lay there without moving.  But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.  Past midnight.  Never knew such silence.  The earth might be uninhabited.”

We liked it so much, I decided it would make a nice Valentine’s Day gift for my husband.  I had leftover spray paint, vinyl letters, and cardboard from the holidays, so that’s what it got made from. 

You need:

  • Nice piece of cardboard or some kind of base
  • 0.5” vinyl letters (I got Helvetica)
  • Spray paint (I used gold)
  • Xacto knife/box cutter

Want to see the steps? 

Costs = <$9: 

  • 0.5” vinyl letters (I got Helvetica) = $4.24
  • Spray paint (I used gold) = $4.40
  • Everything else = free or already available around the house

How to:

  • Print the piece in Helvetica Neue 46 – that’s about as close as I could get to the 0.5” vinyl letters.  In retrospect, I should have placed greater spacing between “…from side to side” and “Past midnight.”

  • Using the print-out as your guide, place the vinyl adhesive letters on the cardboard.
  • Spray paint outside!  I tried to give it a cloudy/dreamy effect, so I didn’t do a full-coverage onslaught — again, in retrospect, maybe would do it differently.
  • Remove vinyl letters.
  • And thar she blows.  I put it in hallway next to the toilet for regular viewing.

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