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Linguistic Fictions

CYPHERIAN CALIGRAPHY  (1995-6)
​The Cypherians are a fictional culture with a rich calligraphic tradition. The meaning of any word has two aspects: its objective, denotative meaning, seen as its "kernal",  and a surrounding "halo" of its associative connotations. Cypherian language is 100% connotation. Its denotative content is zero. Further, like hieroglyphs, Cypherian writing is based on pictograms, providing a seamless linkage between objects in the world, their representation in sculpture or drawing, and their abstraction in a profile or cypher in a written text. Hence, Cypherian calligraphy, while tied back to the things of the world, is grasped and understood through pure connotation — in precisely the same way as music is.  


ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY OF CYPHERIAN LANGUAGE  (1996)
​large graphite drawing on paper


CYPHERIAN CALLIGRAPHY - 1


CYPHERIAN PICTOGRAPHS  (1996)


LABIA ARABIA  (1997)
large graphite drawing on paper


CIRCUS MUSIC
​graphite on paper
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