Ethnic Cleansing (1999)    

Artist Note: The tall strokes (capable of producing letters but beside the point) were written with spacing but a sliver of white (counter, letter, word, & interlinear). It took me a few years to find my simplicity. My purpose was to make texture unbelievably simple and unreadable, texture being the common denominator of all oohs and aahs of looking at it -sighing before a word was translated. The student work bedazzled me and I took back ten times what I gave away. I use the texture both as background and as words of the text. Readability is beside my point: calligraphy can conceal the art but never the hand (Edward Johnston).


Watercolor, gouache, colored markers, pointed brush, Speedball and Tape nibs, Elmer's glue, on 15 x 23" 400-lb Arches deckled watercolor paper.

Text: Gerard Manly Hopkins and the Gospel of Matthew

Publications &: Exhibitions: "Letter Arts Review Annual, 2001," V.16, N.3. (Jurors: Ewan Clayton, Jerry Kelly). "Beyond the Alphabet," the 7th Biennial Exhibition of the Society for Calligraphy, Los Angeles, 1998.

From the collection of Margaret Konjivod, Venice, CA.