What makes writing possible…

Mostly prefers to eliminate text, a word, a letter, or any readable, even recognizable written entities, which come out with visual images close to abstraction primarily defined as expressive, experimental, or abstract calligraphy. Instead of focusing on the readable text with a restricted mindset of the tradition and its boundaries, a scribe as a servant of the text, the central theme became a gesture and the moves of the hand -so-called writing-like gestures- that are claimed as calligraphy.

Writing here is reduced to the essential, which means writing gestures.

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  • “Understanding what writing makes possible is not at all the same thing as understanding what makes writing possible”

    Harris, Rethinking Writing (2000, p. 11)

  • ...whether writing was invented or merely evolved and whether this evolution refers to improvement, which means every writing system is better than the previous system.

    Harris, Rethinking Writing (2000)

  • The word “to write,” as a verb has a broad sense of various types of activities, namely “tearing, scratching, sketching, drawing, carving, cutting, pulling, tugging,” which points to the various stages that writing gone through in respect of tools and techniques that used in a particular time.

    Online Etymology Dictionary

  • writing as “an extension of gesture -a way to make a motion visible, memorable, and lasting”

    Shepherd, Learn calligraphy: The complete book of lettering and design (2001, p. 9)