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It looks like writing, but we can't quite read it.I call works like this "asemic writing".
Asemic writing seems to be a gigantic, unexplored territory.
Asemic writing has been made by poets, writers, painters, calligraphers, children, and scribblers, all around the world. Most people make asemic writing at some time, possibly when testing a new pen.
Educators talk about children going through distinct stages of "mock letters", "pseudowriting" and so on, as they're learning to write. Please show us more examplesof this on the www! Isn't a child's early writing the very fountainhead of human writing culture, or its growing tip?
Asemic writing does something to us. Some asemic writing has pictograms or ideograms, which suggest a meaning through their shape. Others take us for a ride along their curves. We like some, we dislike others.
They tend to have no fixed meaning. Their meaning is open. Every viewer can arrive at a personal, absolutely correct interpretation.
Asemic writing has been presented in books, in paintings, on scrolls, on single pages, on mailed envelopes, on walls, in cinema, on television and on computer monitors, particularly via the internet.