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Description: | Second sketch in black and red ink on layout paper for calligraphic panel with added passages of text collaged onto the sheet to aid working out of the composition; an exploration of the philosophy and symbolism of the I Ching or Chinese Book of Changes through hexagram No. 22 using text on numerous scales and various styles (quotations, translations, explanations, commentaries), symbols (trigrams, hexagrams), and schematic drawings (indicating sun, moon, thunder, fire and so on); the hexagram is placed centrally with the commentary associated with it's interpretation written out in red below; at the top-left the building blocks of the hexagrams and their associations are explained and at the bottom-left a way of reading the hexagram by unpacking it from the bottom up is demonstrated; in the centre-top the fundamental idea of yin and yang is illustrated; on the right the composition is not finalised and this part of the poster is quite empty - Ann Hechle notes that at this stage of drafting this corner is 'a bit light' without enough complexity and information to balance the whole Part Of Series: æ Ann Hechle: calligraphy as experiment, expression, and vocation | Subjects: | Ann Hechle Visit draft sketch second sketch for calligraphic panel philosophy | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Calligrapher: Ann Hechle | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2245... | Go to resource |
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