modern english

There is something very particular about the gestures of writing, the marks of a written language; the pattern of repeating shapes, edges and spaces, the uniformity of height, intent or direction of thought, tilting right or left, flowing downward. Asemic writing is writing without literal meaning. It is the intent, gesture, rhythm, disconnected from a literal representation by codified word, (the transliteration of thoughts). Asemic writing is a transliteration of feeling and of the flow of attention.

Modern English? This was an old book. I would say we are now past-past-post-Modern English. And what is that evolution exactly? Text messages made of acronyms and emojis, tribal slangs traveling on wings through the inter-web….I am curious about the spectrum and possibility of writing and of the spectrum that lies between writing and image-making. Every image made by a person – every image is made by a person to begin with – is an abstraction. At what point does a shadow become a line, a line a mark, a mark a symbol for a sound? At what point does script degrade into an illegible scrawl, filled yet with the character of its author? At what point does a font morph into design? Words themselves are empty vessels. They can be filled with all the shades of any voice. Their meanings are malleable, changing with time and use. The threads of language are multiple; converging from every angle: color, shadow, light, texture, sound – to pluck strings of resonance in the human instrument who pauses long enough to feel the vibration.