Writing for the sake of writing

My new series: "Letters from the Universe"

First hand-written note to you, my subscribers. Done by me, in a journal, with a pen.

This hand-written note connects to some other type of writing I have been doing recently. A bit ore of an abstract-artsy writing…

It started when I sat in a local garden cafe, on an island, in the river close by, with a cake and tea.

The sun was shining, blue sky, insects were buzzing & I felt like sketching a bit.

I always carry a mini sketchbook so I got going… when suddenly I felt the urge of writing. But not specific words, just the process of writing was what I craved for.

As I told you before, I always loved to write and also paint & draw, basically use my hands and create something.

So I turned around a page in my mini sketchbook & started to “write”… what came out was no words, just scribbled hieroglyphs, nothing I know about, nothing I understand, just random shapes & lines.

I immediately loved the outcome! The whole process!

Cos it didn’t make sense! It didn’t have to make sense at all. I didn’t have to pay attention to grammar, typos, punctuations, structure… I could just “write”.

Here is a short video of my initial sketches & “writings”:

I got so excited, that I went home & wrote a whole journal page & loved it even more! So I decided to make whole artworks from it!

I took my watercolor papers, taped off the borders with sticky tape, made lines with graphite & started to “write” with a black pen… and I loved it even more!!!

It looked so beautiful!! I decorated it with gold and started to play around with frames & larger “letters and words”. And my Series: “Letters from the Universe” was born!

These are the first two I made:

First two “Letters from the Universe”

I have a hard time describing you why this is so fulfilling for me. Making the lines is meditative, starting to “write” like that calms me down & the beauty that emerges fascinates me.

In the second version, I used larger writing and I mixed the black up with gold. Because somehow I got the feeling that these “words” come from my subconscious, they just flow out, no idea of any meaning whatsoever.

They reminded me of what is going on in my head: it is busy all the time, I speak to myself constantly. Some thoughts make sense, some don't, and sometimes, amongst all the pointless bla-bla, brilliant thoughts & ideas emerge!

To me, the black lines represent the chit-chatter and the golden ones, the briliant pieces and ideas my mind comes up with.

I continued to explore, the next ones:

Two more A4 sized “Letters from the Universe”, done by me.

I made very tiny writings, because sometimes we dont rally hear what is happening in our inner world, and sometimes it clusters together, screams loud & needs more space.

I also felt like grouping the brilliant thoughts & ideas, cos in my head they are like bubbles, so I made written golden bubbles amongst the black noise that comes out.

Sometimes we see and realize the whole idea, the whole bubble, but other times, it is just part of a brilliant thought that starts to emerge. I love this process!

Then, I also wanted to see how smaller artworks look like, so I tried A5 formats, playing around with the text format and adding colored balls of thoughts:

A5 sized '“Letters from the Universe” made by me.

And here, you are free to interpret what they mean! I mean, they can mean whatever you want them to man for you.

I did not assign them any purpose or meaning when I did them, it all came later, when my mind started to recognize patterns & analogies & make up stories about these pieces!

On the right for example: sometimes a brilliant idea might be hidden in a black ball of smoosh, but if you look closely, its inner golden, shiny letters form an amazing thought.

The same counts for the opposite: what if we have a supposedly amazing bubble of an idea, but we dont realize yet, that it is not so great, its not-greatness hiding behind shiny-gold?

A5-sized “Letters from the Universe”, with black frame around them.

All of this makes no sense, at all.

Or all the sense in the world.

It is beautiful or ugly.

Up to you.

And that is the beauty with art & writing and abstract-crazy ideas like that: they can be anything and nothing, all at the same time.

The only thing I know is, that I love them and I enjoy making them.

And I have promised myself to follow my creative & artistic hunches, no matter what!

I am planning to put them up for sale on my webpage, I still have some going, so if you are interested in one of them, let me know, I can ship it anywhere in the world!

For now, this is it. I wanted to share this part of me with you.

Maybe to encourage you to do something crazy yourself.

Be weird, make no sense & do stuff out of pure joy!

And whenever you do: I would love to see it!!

Love,
Daria