Beauty of Calligraphy
The word calligraphy comes from the Greek words “Kallos” that means beautiful, and “Graphos” (gluphein) that means engraved. So it is the beauty engraved. It's the memory of gesture that builds the memory of mankind, the written word.
I’ve had affection for calligraphy since I was a kid.
I see, think and create calligraphy in a simple and organic way. The intense and daily practice and technical control of calligraphy are ruled by my intuition and sensibility. This way gesture is able to translate feelings and give them shape and beauty through calligraphy.
When the letter leaves the word and the word leaves the text they become form, colour, texture, volume, lines, straight, curve and beauty. Free from the frame of the text they express other meanings within the space of the paper. They become the gesture, the breathing and the obsession of the calligrapher.
Making calligraphy allows you to trace different lengths and thicknesses, creating empty and full spaces until they become something organic, like flowers or plant textures. Exploring different alphabets at the same time with two or three colours, with many different types of pens can broaden your possibilities.
With calligraphy you have to begin with a trace, a line, the rest comes along.
