Everyone who knows me knows I like a challenge; they also know I’m happy working with my hands. So I’ve decided, as my summer project, to make a table beyond tables. I’m starting with the two vital elements: wood and text. The wood is astonishing. For a remarkably reasonable price, I managed to lay my […]
Spring has arrived disturbingly early up here by the Canadian border, but this is good news for you as it means my Spring Sale has also arrived early. I’m offering three of my favorite wall art carvings at reduced prices, namely: “Om shanti shanti shanti om,” in the exquisite Pallava script […]
International Mother Language Day, February 21st, is a kind of well-intentioned bureaucratic expansion of the Bangladesh observance of National Martyrs Day, a remembrance of the day in 1952 when five people were killed for protesting their right to speak Bengali (Bangla) rather than Urdu, the official language of the new state of Pakistan. What came […]
The first monthly meeting of the Writing Beyond Writing Book Club (Western Hemisphere edition) was an utter blast. We journeyed through fonts based on one’s own handwriting; low-energy and high-energy writing systems; Hungarian runic script redesigned as Netflix logos; the burning of books to establish a script to unify an empire; Latin manuscripts containing paintings, […]
