Why am I planning to include the Meitei Mayek script in the “Right to Speak, Right to Read, Right to Write” sculpture I’m going to carve, if our Kickstarter campaign is successful? Because it shows dramatically, even violently, what the Endangered Alphabets are all about. I’ll explain. It’s almost impossible for us in the West […]
People often ask me, how does an alphabet become endangered? Assuming my Kickstarter campaign is successful, I’m going to include the Bamum script on my large statement sculpture to illustrate one all-too-common way. Starting around 1896, twenty-five-year-old King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum Kingdom in Cameroon invented a writing system for his people’s language. He […]
Our just-launched Kickstarter campaign aims to create a large public sculpture that says, in English and three different endangered alphabets, “The Right to Speak, the Right to Read, the Right to Write.” Language, spoken and written, is a human rights issue, a social justice issue–and each of the three scripts tells its own story of […]
Coming soon–our 2022 Kickstarter! I want to raise the money to create a larger-than-life-size carving in spectacular wood that says “The Right to Speak, the Right to Read, the Right to Write” in English and three different scripts whose communities have at various times been denied the chance to speak, read, or write their own […]
