The icon for the menu page was appropriated from the letter "A" found in Johann David Steingruber's alphabet published in 1773, where each letter is a floorplan for an imaginary palace.
A website is a virtual building or musˇe imaginaire that does not exist in real space. It is also an alphabet or self contained system of signifiers.
has been turned on its side and mirrored to form a floorplan where the first letter of the alphabet becomes the beginning and the end. The daimond shape calls to mind linear diagrams from the history of optics and perspective.
