Nature will find a way

I'm super excited that this is the lettering that made it into Typism Book 6! This idea of working with this particular style and this particular phrase has been with me for a long time and I never could find time to finish it. Luckily Typism Book was the push that I needed to finally finish it :) The original sketch (photo in sketchbook) was made last summer as an exploration of this style based on another lettering. In that option I really tried to see how far I can push negative spaces between the letters. After that I noticed that the white spaces look very much like brunches of a tree and it feels like they are breaking down this big solid rock with letters. And this gave me the idea to pursue this approach and made the idea of the brunches more prominent. After some trials with the texture I came up with this design

P. S. Typism also shared the process of making this design so you can check it there as well :)