THE PROCLAMATION THAT SUPERSEDES ANY OTHER PROCLAMATION DEFINING THE REASONS FOR USING WORDS OF PROCLAMATION AS PROCLAIMED BY THE PROCLAIMER HIMSELF.

LAST YEAR
I participated in a group show of artists and their works as it addressed diverse topics such as landscapes, portraiture, and calligraphy. My previous visual history laid primarily in the areas of commercial art such as advertising, illustration, and graphic design. After serious thought, I decided upon concentrating on the category of calligraphy, being the one that most closely resembled the area that would possibly present aesthetic overlaps with my commercial art experiences. Hopefully, it would also dovetail nicely with the curriculum I teach to my beginning design students.

CALLIGRAPHY
as I wanted to portray it, would involve literary communication as well as present design challenges to devise and solve. The first works created for that show felt appropriate to me. They were simple yet thoughtful and honest. They were handmade, a personal requirement of mine. They were communicable on some level as well since the works incorporated text. Now this could be something to pursue that would possibly fulfill what I felt was sorely lacking in my commercial experiences.

THE INITIAL EXPERIMENTS
in 2005 have produced additional hand painted, less calligraphic text-based works. I encourage the viewer to find their own interpretations. Some are obvious and fairly straightforward. Others are playful. The rest are simply too personal to exist without a veil of comfortability for me. Absolutely, these also feel appropriate, thoughtful, and honest. The latest typographic efforts are the conclusions to my visual experiments. Think of the work as the same as how graphic design feels to the artist and as to what concrete poetry is for the writer of verse. It’s all about the dialogue.