Category Archives: calligraphy

Street Typography

Posted on September 20, 2014 by jyourist

I am so amazed at the talent of sign painters and those who can letter by hand (my father’s skills). This was filmed two years ago in London.  

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Calligraphy at Anderson Gardens

Posted on July 23, 2014 by jyourist
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Glass Pyrograph drawings

Posted on July 15, 2014 by jyourist

Etsuko Ichikawa uses hot glass to create this very effective and powerful calligraphy. The work in performance is even more riveting. Born in Tokyo (1963), she presently lives and works in Seattle.

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Koji Kakinuma

Posted on June 26, 2014 by jyourist

Calligraphy and lettering have always held a magical place in my soul. I have written before about the fact that my father was a sign painter (a job no longer really needed with the advent of technology) and how mesmerized … Continue reading →

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Dishu: Ground Calligraphy

Posted on January 26, 2014 by jyourist

The word dishu comes from di meaning “square” or “earth” and shu meaning “book” or “writing,” hence “earth writing” or “ground calligraphy,” writing on the ground using water as ink. Thousands of calligraphers are at work daily all through China, … Continue reading →

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Performance Calligraphy

Posted on January 4, 2014 by jyourist

Performance artist Kotaro “HATCH” Hachinohe from Sapporo Japan, educated in Kyoto, presently living in Brooklyn.

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Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

Posted on March 6, 2013 by jyourist

The Heart Sutra Translation by Edward Conze Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom, the Lovely, the Holy! Avalokita, The Holy Lord and Bodhisattva, was moving in the deep course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond. He looked down from … Continue reading →

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“Dream of Ink Brush Calligraphy” by Karen An-Hwei Lee

Posted on February 28, 2013 by jyourist

xxxx xxxx In prayer: quiet opening, my artery is a thin shadow on paper— margin of long grass, ruderal hair, sister to this not yet part of our bodies your lyric corpus of seed in rough drafts of pine ash, … Continue reading →

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Isa Hirano–calligraphic dance

Posted on January 30, 2013 by jyourist

Isa Hirano creates shoga or calligraphic paintings that originate, for her, in surrealism expressing “internal urges without any reference to established aesthetics or ethics by exploring the domains of the subconscious, irrationality, and unreality,” she writes on her website. Her … Continue reading →

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Confluence of calligraphy and henna

Posted on November 29, 2010 by jyourist

Lalla Essaydi is an artist who grew up in Morocco. Her work is about the confluence of arabic calligraphy, culturally and historically done by men usually in the transcription of the Qu’ran, and of henna painting traditionally done by women … Continue reading →

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