Once upon a time

earlier images of Chinese ideograms painted on ceramic tiles

randomly selected ideograms

once an ideogram has been fixed as a common accepted notion does not mean one should forget its earliest inspiration

especially its very process of transformation, related purely to nature, and a human's earliest visual understanding of nature

restudying these basic elements, visual vocabularies turned into standardised characters without pretending to understand its present connotations is a process of unlearning

unlearning in order to relearn is a natural way of living one's life, after one has lived too sophisticated experience- one needs that cleansing of the spirit

to do that, you go back to your own roots, and your own culture, and yet, in the meantime, you put that idea of your own culture aside and arrive at the need to identify a culture with no names, a culture which is a denominator of all

but since you cannot just get rid of what you have learned, and so what you can do is to extract its essence, from perhaps a view point which is experienced yet made fresh

a visual code, borrowed from nature, or from what one's experience in order to form an idea turned into an ideogram- such process of making visual codes in earlier human record and yet do not deprive them of profound meaning was a neccesity towards personal survival issues

to render visual codes even poetic was another step forward

God is Love the character Sky is the first one reading from the top ( if placed vertically ) or from the simplest character on the left ( now that it is placed horizontally )

Once upon a time

the ancient Chinese

observed nature

with much patience

slowly

a line was born

to denote one aspect of nature

such as a simple horizontal

to represent the steady earth where he stood

then when he raised his head

the enormous sense of space overwhelmed him

he , therefore, put a line above the steady horizontal beneath him

smaller in scale

perhaps right in the middle portion

on top, paralleling the steady line under his feet

to describe the vastnessness

of the sky

he stretched his arms from left to right

then with a kind of vertical which denotes his vetebrae,

and two diagonals which denote his open legs

he says

look

what is on top of my head

look

what is below

on top is the amazing kind of space

right above my head

hidden yet made known through a small horizontal line

below is the amazing kind of space

underneath my wide opened feet

how incredible is the sky above me

how incredible is the earth on which I stand

I could not tell you

how much I understand

the vastnessness

between the sky and the earth

but I am showing you with my full strength

with all the possible means

using the gesture of my body

Such was the story behind the first person

who used visual codes , together with his understanding

to tell a story

of his limited self

in an unlimted kind of space

A limit

without limit

Limitless

expressed with limited self

Such was a straight forward story

of the earliest concept

of the ideogram

Sky

in Chinese

every single Chinese has learned how to

write it

but most are taught only the techniques of making the lines beautiful

visual codes became

standardised

even aesthetic wise

Somehow

to unlearn that known standard

means to

recover

a poetic dimension

the one that embraced

the exciting discovery

of the single character

the Sky

( a hypothesis notbook II is a work in progress which began in 2013, registering various known notions yet by unlearning their accepted states of definitions, a new vision is born, perhaps more from an inner necessity than from a scholarly point of view- after the journey I chose to begin in 1982-on Chinese calligraphy, color and poetry )