Photospeaking and/or Photowriting

The term Orihon is a Japanese type of scroll book by folding the scroll into an accordion or concertina. Ori means fold and hon means book.

ASL Photocalligraphy Orihon is an accordion consisting of the images of ASL movements captured on the camera. Each ASL phrase comes with a translation in written English.

The Photocalligraphy series depict a trace of text in Ameslan or ASL (American Sign Language). The artist translates a selected English text into Ameslan or ASL and captures the movement of ASL into a digital image. This process refers to Derridean arche-writing and grammatology.

Photocalligraphy of ASL trace: there is no outside of the text (derrida)

Photocalligraphic trace of ASL text: poetry performance

Photocalligraphic trace of ASL text: poetry performance

Calligraphic trace of ASL text: "a splendid flash of concrete poetry"

"a splendid flash of concrete poetry"

diversity and unity
-- jolanta a. lapiak

form is emptiness; emptiness is form (The Heart Sutra)

Sun sheds a tear;
Rain burns.
-- jolanta a. lapiak

Great gift idea for a baby shower.

Photocalligraphic trace of ASL text: my sweet baby

Photocalligraphic trace of ASL text: my sweet baby