Asemic Writing

Asemic writing is one of the most interesting and exciting concepts I’ve ever explored in my art.

Asemic writing are the strange squiggles and marks you see in the Shunyata series and in some of the Identity series. It is writing without out meaningful content. You can see it on this Portrait of Frida.

What I love about it is that it is completely unbounded mark making. I’m not trying to make it look like anything. I try to control it as little as possible, rolling the pencil or chalk as I move across the paper.

I remember my fiance telling me that she had struggled with her work becoming “tight” at one point. I totally tend in the direction of tight. But the use of asemic in my art keeps things loose and unbounded. That leads to freedom and the ability to express myself in new and exciting ways.