Asemic Writing
Asemic writing looks like writing, but it is meaningless.

Asemic writing looks like writing, but it is meaningless.

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.



  1. 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