belted

reading Artforum February 2009

a review of Kay Rosen’s work by Yvon Lambert

i got this image from Kay Rosen’s site

so in this image the black line belts the ‘h’ and then tightens the ‘k’ “the shirt cinched to form a skirt”. i wonder if they know that they are also etymological doublets?!?! making this piece infinitely cooler.

shirt < Gmc. *skurt : skirt < Old Norse skyrta ‘shirt’

both English ’shirt’ and English ’skirt’ go back to the same Germanic root. But ’shirt’ came into English via Old Norse, and recflects changes in pronunciation that took place between the time it made it into English.