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blake 3:17
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posted 23 July 2006 05:53 AM      Profile for blake 3:17     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thoughts?

quote:
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.


Asemic mag homepage.

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Michelle
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posted 23 July 2006 07:28 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think I don't really get it. It's neat, but I don't understand the difference between asemic writing and scribbling. That sounds dismissive but I don't mean it that way. How can it be called "writing" when it doesn't impart meaning through words?

Although I understand what they mean about kids at a pre-writing stage where they're trying to write. My son just went through that stage about a year ago and it was so neat. So I get it on that level. But on the level of people who can write imitating pre-writing - I don't get that.

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posted 23 July 2006 09:07 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That's interesting. I wonder if this could have any application as a projective psychological assessment tool.

It's sort of an interface between writing, which I don't think it is, and an expressive visual art.

Maybe it's where Dr.s learn to write prescriptions.


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