It's Time to Write in the Journal
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This year, 2007, marks Tapissary’s 30th anniversary. To celebrate, I’ve been making adjustments to the grammar. The journal is my practice sheet where I merge linguistic invention with my daily experiences.
"Spoken" Tapissary comes in 2 flavors. "Tapisi" sounds like a French Slavic blend, while "Sevens" takes English vocabulary as its base. The celloglyphs (hieroglyphs) are written the same for both the Tapisi and Sevens styles. These two spoken forms can also be written with the Latin alphabet, as seen in the following entries. For the time being, I'm focusing on Sevens.
The formulae you see preceding each phrase below (such as: [≈] + V ) refer to the cyclic grammar.
Images and Vocabulary. I base these short Tapissed texts on images. The illustrated entries give me daily practice with language, drawing and/or photography. Each day I highlight a vocabulary word, showing how it fits into a sentence.
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tapissed entries
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Sept 26 2007
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Yesterday I didn’t post a vocabulary word, so I’m making up for it today with six çelloglyphs. Note that the masculine arrow and feminine cross distinguish a prince from a princess. If you remove the marker, you will be left with the base word... a child of a royal couple. The cross and arrow show up in other words to show female and male, such as parent becoming mother and father, etc...
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Sept 25 2007
Color pencil drawing 7.5" x 10"
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[=] /\+/\ Twinky meets an Indian princess and a bear of yarn on his way to the Scientific Convention.
Twinky sawran an Indian mdepriincess and a mdebeaar yyarn on his way to the Scientific Convention.
About the models: Twinky, my childhood toy gazelle with real fur and a bent horn / a papier mâché Indian bobbing dancer in 4 sections that I bought in Bombay years ago / the knitted bear, a recent addition to my collection.
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Sept 24 2007
The çelloglyph framed in the red boxes means 'dictionary'
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[≠] |+<> I’m thinking about making a brief dictionary of Tapissary on this site. [=] +/\ There have been several requests for that from visitors. [≠] +| The e dictionary would list the most common 1,000 words or so.
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Sept 23 2007
The çelloglyph framed in the yellow boxes means: 'site'
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[=] |+| Along with my interest in violets and yellows today, is a site +| I found about writers’ rooms. +| There is a photo of the writer’s workspace for each name, +| and a couple paragraphs written by the authors about their space. +/\ The entries are very witty and entertaining, and at times profound. +| The site is: h tee tee pee ://books dot guardian dot co dot uk/writersrooms
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Sept 22 2007
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[≠] |+/\ I don’t have much to say today, except:
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Muwcuch lasay hemeès today, except:
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Sept 21 2007
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[=] |+| I’m continuing the minimalist grids. +/\ The idea also occurred to consider the way I write in Tapissary. [≠] +/\ Can I be more minimalist with such a dense script?
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Sept 20 2007
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[=] |+| I only used gray and red pencils for this abstract exercise. +| Seven years ago, I did a similar series of abstractions using inks. +| This piece is arranged randomly. [≠] +/\ The mind naturally wants to start clustering some squares with others, [≠] +/\ so this exercise could grow into a series of new experiments.
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NOTE: The çelloglyph meaning 'abstract' can be written in many ways of which I've written a few above. The base is a cross. Each of the four regions partitioned by that cross may yield any combination of bars and crosses, providing there is always at least one cross or one bar in the composition. For example, the 4 regions cannot be composed exclusively of bars without any crosses. The same is true for a field of only crosses, which would not fit the meaning of 'abstract'.
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Sept 19 2007
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[≠] |--/\ There’s no drawing today [=] +<> since I’m working on another piece that takes a few days to complete.
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At the last moment I changed my mind and made this fast sketch after an oil by George Stubbs from 1768. My pencil drawing is about 4" x 9"
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Sept 18 2007
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[=] |+| I started to draw a design after a Javanese batik fabric pattern, +/\ but almost immediately deviated into free style. [≠] +/\ No one would recognize this sketch as Javanese inspired, however, [≠] +/\ would you believe alligator skin?
Iwcii staert ladraw a design after a Javanese batik fabric pattern, but almost immediately deviate into free bjôstôôle. This sketch would recognize hnûnooone as Javanese inspired, however, would alligator skin ccrûyouu?
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Sept 17 2007
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[=] |+/\ Doodling with colored pencils is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Doodle with colored artipeeghnciling more fun than a barrel ymoghnkey is.
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