{"id":178,"date":"2020-08-31T03:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T03:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2020-08-31T03:27:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T03:27:55","slug":"what-the-heck-is-asemic-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/31\/what-the-heck-is-asemic-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"What the heck is Asemic writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was reading various art articles this weekend and came across a couple of really interesting pieces that looked more like writing than abstract art. Apparently, they were Asemic writings. I asked myself, what the heck is Asemic writing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asemic_writing\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, &#8220;Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing.&#8221;  The word asemic means &#8220;having no specific semantic content&#8221; or, &#8220;without the smallest unit of meaning.&#8221;  With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret.  All of this is similar to the way one would deduce meaning from an abstract work of art.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How cool is that! What can I come up with trying that technique? Well, the answer is the piece below.  Looks like I created my own Hieroglyphic.  Now if I can just decode what it says I&#8217;ll know what it means \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:#f4f505\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>\u201c<strong>Once Upon a Dime a Nickel Made Sense<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-799x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-799x1024.jpg 799w, http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-scaled-600x769.jpg 600w, http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-234x300.jpg 234w, http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-768x984.jpg 768w, http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-1199x1536.jpg 1199w, http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-1598x2048.jpg 1598w, http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-640x820.jpg 640w, http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-1010x1294.jpg 1010w, http:\/\/alexretivov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Once-Upon-a-Dime-a-Nickel-Made-Sense-2308ARPaper-scaled.jpg 1998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading various art articles this weekend and came across a couple of really interesting pieces that looked more like writing than abstract art. 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