Asemic Writing

[jwmart]

I have ordered a couple of pens. I used to like fast flowing gel roller balls that slid easily across the paper, but it's been a longtime since I purchased any pens specifically for drawing. Being unsure, I found a man who made a video about his favourite pens for sketching. I ordered a fountain pen, and a brush pen, both he recommended. They're also refillable which reduces single-use plastic waste. I still have a tub of old pens and old pencils which have seen better days, but they remain usable. The new pens will bring a different character to those I already have.

I used to favour heavy weight cartridge paper, but have gone for 100 sheets of 100gsm. That's the thing with this type of art making, I can fill reams and reams quite easily without producing anything I feel is worth sharing. Again this is from a waste/material/resource perspective.

I'm not considering other mediums for exploration at this moment. We were encouraged to experiment with technique and medium at art school. This time round, I'm not interested in other people's views on how I should do this. It will be inward looking, an introspective project. I have memories of the views of others, from my student days, and more from the decade that followed, also the views of non artists, views from people without understanding or schooling or appreciation for art (so what I did was hidden from those people). That is enough interference! If I want to experiment then I will, but until then, I won't. Pen/Pencil/Paper. Draw.

Re waste, I could go digital I suppose. Get a graphics tablet for the PC, and draw using a pen but directly to digital format. I suspect much disconnect between the physical device and the digital apparition on screen, especially at the lower budget I'm more likely to find justifiable to expend money on for a non marketable crackpot idea.

Or maybe I could go to the beach. Draw in the sand. Buy a drone and take photos from above. Expense of travel, time taken to travel, would the rare mineral resources that comprise the electronic circuitry of the drone, it's plastic case and components, how much paper and plastic pens, wood, and graphite, and other coloured pigments, ink or crayon, how much of this would it be equivalent to.

Re other, I have noticed asemic qualities in the Mandelbrot set, but haven't explored it from an asemic persepective. Again, energy usage, I have the equipment (a PC with GPU) for the calculations, but time to navigate, time to calculate/render, it's very slow and energy demanding - the GPU gets to 80°C. Pen/Paper is much more immediate and direct.

[kFoyauextlH]

It makes me really happy and hopeful that you have started practicing this, especially if after a long time of not making any sorts of things, since I've also long been kept away from all the things I used to do frequently for years until drastic reductions when I ended up living in an apartment for the first time, and then a decade of very little drawing or music creation or much of anything I used to do, and just being bombarded with worsening seeming news and conditions and health at a pretty young age overall, it has been like an attack on a huge amount of ordinary people and fighting through the overwhelming insistence of futility, then something comes through, something like a little niche and specific object of interest like a small light to notice or a constellation, and then at least thinking about it and getting some stimulation and different feelings from it.

https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/2018 ... g-systems/



These try to give the shapes references and are replacing symbols, but initially it is unlikely there was any meaning to any of the writing:

https://www.trashworldnews.com/alien-writing/





Speaking in "tongues" seemed to originally be the idea of being able to communicate in actual languages to distant communities where one didn't know the language by the power of "The Holy Spirit", but then it became prople just babbling, and babbling was claimed of something practiced by other people who were not Christian but they may just have been speaking other languages unfamiliar to the writers.

https://www.samwoolfe.com/2021/04/xenog ... mbols.html

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https://www.filterforge.com/filters/7181-v7.jpg



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https://i.redd.it/9nlb350tkq2f1.jpeg



"
- Original Trilogy Appearance: The symbols that inspired Aurebesh first appeared on computer screens in Return of the Jedi
(1983). These were largely just "chopped up" Letraset decals of the
Eurostile font, intended only to look alien and futuristic, not to
convey a message.
- "Random" Text:
The text on the Death Star tractor beam control screen in the original
trilogy was deemed "totally random" and did not correspond to any
language.
- Formalization in 1993–1994: Stephen Crane, an art director for West End Games, created the 34-character Aurebesh alphabet in 1993–1994 for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. He took the random symbols from the movies, standardized them, and assigned them English letters.
- Retroactive Changes:
Because the original movie text was random, the standardized 1994
alphabet does not properly translate the text seen in the original Return of the Jedi
scenes. However, in later special editions and prequels, the Aurebesh
was updated to be meaningful (e.g., the tractor beam screen in the 2004 A New Hope DVD release).
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Therefore,
while the modern, standardized Aurebesh is a functional alphabet
(transcribing Galactic Basic/English), its origins were purely
decorative, non-lingual "space lettering".
"

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5 ... X1000_.jpg

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/aureb ... 0204222029

http://www.erikstormtrooper.com/ed_galbasic1.htm

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Aurebesh

https://www.generic-hero.com/ThisWeekin ... -is-weird/