These sculptural scans developed from questions around the limits of language, legibility, sense-making, and grief. After/while experiencing several dimensions of personal loss, I began making asemic writing as a way to process and heal, outside of coherence. Asemic writing (wordless writing) is an ancient form of abstract art, which many artists and poets have employed as a way of creating writing that “can be read by anyone,” as Mirtha Dermisache wrote.
The knots are stand-ins for words, to examine how their shape and form could communicate gesture, tone, inflection, intonation. Knots and words are both used to connect and hold things together. Allowing form to become function, these knots don’t hold anything but themselves. They are words that say nothing definitively. The works are meant to be read, as a kind of notation. Some pieces are movement scores, while others are sound scores, and others are asemic poems. They operate around and inside of the idea that, “Everything is translation at every level, in every direction.” (Michaux)