3.5 Ideocalligrapher's ideocalligraphs

- exchanging messages worldwide

This chapter is about sending an ideocalligraphic message to this website. It may be your own new message or your response to a message already there.

WRITING YOUR IDEOCALLIGRAPHS

Write your ideocalligraphs with pens, brushes, fine-line biro, or a broken twig - whatever instrument combination you choose to write with - on paper or on a wall, in linear format, free space, or a combination of both. In responding to a message you may come up with an ideocalligraph of your own. The potential list of ideocalligraphs is limitless. They are yours to use and yours to expand.

Subsequent visitors may create adapted or new ideocalligraphs and respond to variables like proximity and distance, strong colour and feintness, elision and the mingling of brush and pen strokes. Those developments which seem to work best will be later added to an Alphabetical index of Visitor ideocalligraphs.

SENDING YOUR IDEOCALLIGRAPH

Take a photo of your ideocalligraph message. Beneath it add a text title for it, followed by your name and the country you write from.  Send your message to ideocalligraphy.com!   It will be placed on 3.5 in Ideocalligrapher's ideocalligraphs in sequence with those already there.

RESPONSE TO A MESSAGE ALREADY THERE

Visit the 'Ideocalligrapher's ideocalligraphs' link. Check out the messages and responses already there! When sending a response to a calligrapher's message, address it to the ideocalligraphe's name and message date. It will be placed immediately after the message you write to, or following the most recent response to it.

Nuances of meaning are an integral part of ideocalligraphy. The progress of the correspondent's ideocalligraphic fluency can be observed by visitors to the site - and perhaps imitated and improved upon. The same message, written with a Japanese brush, may well carry different nuances than those made by the point of a biro or felt pen or reed in Brazil !

It is good to remember that Ideocalligraphy is not patented - what you get and what you give is freely given and taken!

We have in ideocalligraphy a language of thought - accessible mind to mind - via the versatility of ideocalligraphers from every language group. Margaret Mead wrote' ...the world needs a new kind of writing which can be read and written in any language.' Ideocalligraphy is one kind of writing which responds to that need.