Asemic Writing
Asemic Magazine explains the concept of Asemic Writing.
It looks like writing, but we can’t quite read it.
I call works like this “asemic writing”.
Asemic writing seems to be a gigantic, unexplored territory.
Asemic writing has been made by poets, writers, painters, calligraphers, children, and scribblers, all around the world. Most people make asemic writing at some time, possibly when testing a new pen.
Educators talk about children going through distinct stages of “mock letters”, “pseudowriting” and so on, when they’re learning to write. Many of us made asemic writing before we were able to write words.
asemic writing looks like writing
it is written signs symbols textual shapes
it conveys a feeling a message that the maker and the reader sense with varying degrees of intensity
the writer/ reader feels the infinite intensity and scope of the asemic message
a message writ on water
a message writ across the sky
paul thaddeus lambert
It’s not meaningless, asemic only means “without semantic content”.
well… images also have semantic content, not a fixed semantic meaning, but some sort of content.
averbal is more suitable than asemic. averbal writing. writing without verbal meaning.
That’s a good point, Bruno. Stories, for example, can be told with images without words. Speaking of words, “asemic” seems to be the one that got chosen for this sort of thing, though. Do you suppose it will suffice?