"Getting rid of physical books because we now have databases is like getting rid of sunshine because of the existence of vitamin-D pills and cod liver oil." (There's a bit of weird semi-racist/homophobic nonsense in here which is completely irrelevant to the main point, & i don't endorse it, but the main point is sound.)
"Might autumn perhaps
utter its final farewell
through the calling stag
at dark Ogurayama,
mountain of the crescent moon?"
--Ki no Tsurayuki in: Brocade by Night
The Asemic movement was starting just as my own trajectory (to be a bit pretentious) was taking me into artificial languages--later "conlangs"--instead. At the same time my paintings were growing more & more calligraphic, until i realized i had to go back & look at precursors like Tobey & Twombly (not to mention the painting of Zen). About the only theory i had at that point...was the Tao te Ching: "those who know/ don't say".
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