Reading this I kept thinking about the 'art' of writing a hand-written letter........it's physical yet it relays a message/meaning to the reader of it as the writing and words themselves have a specific look to them, like a showing of ones soul, thoughts, feelings. Same with the visual arts......whether painting, collage, assemblage etc. one may be using material that's been 'invented' by someone else yet the manipulation of said material by the artist can have that subtle yet defined and even mysterious quality to it when the ego is let go and something else takes over.....is that intuition/instinct, the space between heartbeats or breaths, or perhaps some connection to something else beyond our understanding?
Thanks for writing Annette! Yes, handwriting. It definitely conveys a feeling as much as whatever the actual message is. Something in the script leaves a perfume of the author in it. The more spontaneous the more revealing. Don’t you think? That seems to becoming a lost art at this point. A missing layer of the communication since everyone is writing on a keyboard. Including me! Maybe that is why I like asemic writing at this point. I still get to write but in a very free musical way just speaking in body language.
I'm glad you mentioned the asemic writing as that fits right into what we're talking about here. I love your concept of leaving a "perfume of the author" in hand-written letters........like a fingerprint or snowflake......totally unique to each person. While I love to type on a keyboard, I still love to hand write letters as well as in a journal. There's something about a pen-in-hand being an extension of ones mind.
Reading this I kept thinking about the 'art' of writing a hand-written letter........it's physical yet it relays a message/meaning to the reader of it as the writing and words themselves have a specific look to them, like a showing of ones soul, thoughts, feelings. Same with the visual arts......whether painting, collage, assemblage etc. one may be using material that's been 'invented' by someone else yet the manipulation of said material by the artist can have that subtle yet defined and even mysterious quality to it when the ego is let go and something else takes over.....is that intuition/instinct, the space between heartbeats or breaths, or perhaps some connection to something else beyond our understanding?
Thanks for writing Annette! Yes, handwriting. It definitely conveys a feeling as much as whatever the actual message is. Something in the script leaves a perfume of the author in it. The more spontaneous the more revealing. Don’t you think? That seems to becoming a lost art at this point. A missing layer of the communication since everyone is writing on a keyboard. Including me! Maybe that is why I like asemic writing at this point. I still get to write but in a very free musical way just speaking in body language.
I'm glad you mentioned the asemic writing as that fits right into what we're talking about here. I love your concept of leaving a "perfume of the author" in hand-written letters........like a fingerprint or snowflake......totally unique to each person. While I love to type on a keyboard, I still love to hand write letters as well as in a journal. There's something about a pen-in-hand being an extension of ones mind.