Calligraphic Listening
January 2024
Ink on paper
Series of panels, 20x20 cm
Like a transcription of sounds, like felt writing, a carefully listened detail.
From sound to sign
Necessary writings, necessary sounds.
Calligraphic Listening is based on the principle of listening and the transition from sound to sign.
A transition in which the transcribed text abandons its original meaning to find form in a personal calligraphic stroke, an ancient and conscious love, resistant to any form of wear over time.
Calligraphy, strokes, writings. Everything becomes a graphic sign that is never considered inferior compared to other major artistic disciplines.
Calligraphic Listening arises from attentive and precise listening, made of repetitions, pauses, and memorisation.
It becomes a radiography of a piece, a transcription of parts of text, sometimes of single words.
It is a writing that starts from listening and flows into a serial graphic reproduction.
Sentences repeatedly transcribed, without spaces, in a fluid and uninterrupted writing in which sequences and repetitions take a graphic form as if it were the written frequency of sound waves, where the sound affects the writing, and the writing affects the image.
A graphic representation of the level of sound pressure, of auditory perception, with the presumption of bringing visible traces of a transcription of sounds, frequencies, and timbres into space.
Calligraphic Listening is a work in which the image of sound is sought.
Between suspended sound and lost meaning, it embraces the poetic character of the sign.
The endpoint is the visual sound, on the ridge that separates and unites drawing and writing.
It is an artistic form that delicately moves from music to visual art.
The stroke forms on the white sheet like thin footprints like sound traces and frees the writing from meaning and sense.
The stroke becomes a trace, the calligraphy based on the personal way of listening, breathing, holding breath, moving the mind, the arm, the hand...
The creative faculty of the work is a perpetual movement from listening to writing, from writing to breathing, from breathing to the trace, from the trace to listening. A tonal and vibrant passage.
An immersive process, a soft swaying.
Calligraphic Listening investigates the individual listening capacity, the instrumental necessities of manuscript writing. It is a necessary process, a singular intimate dimension.
The mute sign, derived from a sound, as a relational path between me and silence, between me and noise.
