Belarusian words transformed into hieroglyphs. Brylo and Vakarau released a conceptual album
The "Lohvinau" publishing house has released a conceptual album by designer Artur Vakarau called "Tutajšy Dzen" (Local Zen). The book contains short Japanese-style poems by poet Sabina Brylo and Artur Vakarau himself, writes bellit.info.
"Tutajšy Dzen. Words of Sabina Brylo's poems on Artur Vakarau's word designs. Until today, such graphic aesthetics were unattainable in any language other than Japanese. But isn't Belarusian the most picturesque? Yes. And this album is proof. Deciphering words and meanings is a completely aesthetic zen. Play, then play: large format, thick paper, perfect printing," says the annotation on the publisher's website Lohvinau.eu, where the book can be purchased.
The author and designer Artur Vakarau tells about the creation of the book:
— Our language, like other Western languages, is alphabetic. The reading process is the decoding of absolutely neutral letters which, when combined into familiar words and sentences, acquire meaning and emotion. With hieroglyphs, it's different: the image is perceived directly. Consciousness does not "pronounce" words; the sign works directly as an visual unit. That's why they say hieroglyphs are more semantic reading, while alphabets are phonetic.
I did not try to conform to the canons of classical Japanese calligraphy (many people are already engaged in that without me). And it's impossible to perfectly convey our Cyrillic and Latin alphabets through the existing components of hieroglyphic writing. I captured the general mood: complexity, graphic quality, diversity. I used the main principle that a hieroglyph is a picture with a story and an emotion. Something that makes the reader's eye stop and examine when reading hieroglyphs.
Yes, hieroglyphs require more effort to read, but they are better remembered, like philosophical meanings. I once saw a fitting metaphor that alphabetic reading is a route along a familiar street, while hieroglyphic reading is a slow stroll through a park.
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