The essence of Islamic design, which depends on Arabic calligraphy and abstract ornamentation, is not to imitate the natural world but “to distill visually the essence of rhythm and growth it ...
Calligraphy, once considered the highest form of writing, faces new questions in an age of screens and sensors. Is this ancient art still tethered to brush and ink? The resounding response: not at all ...
"Based on Ōmori Sōgenʼs Sho to Zen (Calligraphy and Zen) and Terayama Katsujō's catalogue for the Zen und die Künste (Zen and art) exhibition ... thoroughly revised and edited and much new material ...