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Just a sound
This project strips down 1960s Western comic books by isolating a single repeated element: the printed word "Bang" used to represent a gunshot. Every instance is systematically cut out and filed into a rigid grid.
Ripped away from their original stories, these comic book fragments stop telling a plot. Instead, they function as a mechanical loop. Forcing these gunshots into a massive serial sequence completely drains them of all drama and shock value. A lethal shooting is reduced to a minimal unit of data on a page.
Inside this layout, the word "Bang" no longer represents a loud noise or a violent act. It functions purely as paperwork showing how mass-production transforms real violence into a harmless pattern of ink, rhythm, and abstract shapes.
