calligraphy, 1, 2,3, 2012

First entries for this year in the 15nth sketchbook, or else "the red hand-bound one". It is another small sketchbook made from discarded photocopy paper I salvaged from a previous job. I stitched the papers together and subsequently hand-bound them, creating three separate sections. The cover is also made from discarded, red, book-binding fabric I found one day as I was walking around in my neighborhood. The drawings that appear here are in the second section that is titled, after-all rather inaccurately, "toys". They are experiments on the use of letters as shapes and not as carriers of meaning. The notes are either gibberish or two personal and impulsive to have any conceptual connotations. In a manner they are allusions to the calligraphy seen in Oriental drawings that only has aesthetic and not narrative purpose to the eyes of the Western admirer.