I read this book backwards,
it was Tuesday night, around 10,
i was half in
half out
feelin kinda weird
but ok,
so i read the book back to front,
a story in symbols
or, as my son put it,
"like it was written by someone who has heard about calligraphy
but never actually seen any."
Before the word there was the letter
before the letter, the symbol
before the symbol
was,
well,
the mark?
the scratch
the line or curve
or, something protean
like a seed,
or a rain drop.
Glyphs of uncertain meaning, how apt that this book owns up to its intangible message, and promises no wisdom, no solutions, not even beauty.
Just art
before art.
Tim Gaze is a remarkable artist whose work, now regarded as instrumental in drawing together an international community, has always been primarily in book form. Very few single pieces of his work are framed and hung on walls. Instead, he produces hundreds of images, thousands of images, a whole storm of asemic symbols, post-literate visual poetry and calligraphy. His writing on the subject has spanned decades, and his weighty published collections of international asemic art have a proud place on the shelves of many painters, poets and calligraphers around the world.
If you've never heard of asemic art...
well,
the story is just beginning for you.
Tim's new book, Glyphs of Uncertain Meaning can be purchased
Also, check out the Post-Asemic Press for more info on the whole
art-form.
