This stitched loveletter is from the hand of British lettering artist Rosalind Wyatt. She stitched a Sanskrit / Indian love poem onto a lacy linen cloth and claims her work is about words. “The ‘sound’ of them, the ‘feel’ of them and the forming of letters.
via letterology.
Writing by hand also alters the relationship between forming a thought and recording it in words. When I write by hand I almost always form a complete sentence in my head before I write it down. When I write on the computer I tend to start typing at the onset of an idea or a sentence that I then figure out how to complete during the process of recording it.
Put another way, my process for writing sentences by hand looks like this:
THINK THINK THINK THINK WRITE WRITE WRITE WRITE
Whereas my process for writing sentences on the computer looks like this:
THINK WRITE THINK DELETE THINK WRITE THINK DELETE THINK WRITE
I find my thoughts come out cleaner by the former process. Whether they come out better is a different and still unsettled question.
Inspiring Calligraphy
Poems from Sándor Weöres & János Pilinszky, calligraphic illustrated for art prints by Boglárka Nádi.
