"cut a long story short"

aluminum

signed, dated, numbered on verso

In cut a long story short, amplified light cuts Morse codes from short and long waves into the cardboard, the text is transformed so that title and image become identical. Reduced complexity emerges from elementary forms, in short.
The individual milled lines each represent a letter of the title, i.e. the first line –.–. would be a C, the second line ..– would be a U, and so on.