Line, light, sound
The same way of looking
Calligraphy is another form of the same way of looking.
Naghashi-khat
For me the pull of this art lies exactly on the border between word and image; where a word is sometimes seen and felt more than it is read.
A new relationship
The relationship I have been after for years is between these four things. None of them is enough on its own — the relationship is where all four say one thing together.
- 01
Word
Everything begins, for me, with the word. A word has meaning before it has a shape — and no shape takes the place of that meaning.
- 02
Line
The line is the word once it is seen — where the letter is not separated from its meaning, but is no longer only read.
- 03
Colour
Colour is what the word does not have on its own. Something that is not read, and changes the meaning all the same.
- 04
Image
A panel has to be seen as an image — before anyone sets out to read it.
Photography
For me a good photograph is not only a beautiful image; it is part of a memory, an experience, or a story that can bring the same feeling back to life years later.
Music
Music, for me, is the continuation of the same story; only this time it is sound and melody that speak, instead of pen and camera.