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The Viewer has the Freedom • Tatiana Roumelioti

Bretty Rawson

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BY TATIANA ROUMELIOTI

Inspired by ancient languages, healing symbols and manuscripts
in 2012 I started to create an aesthetically similar variety
of my own imaginary writings and hieroglyphs.
My work holds no intentional hidden meanings. 
However it appears enigmatic
and the viewer has the freedom to make their own sense out of them.
I mostly use marker pen on paper
and usually write from left to right,
sometimes vertical and rarely right to left and diagonally.
I have created many different types of texts and hieroglyphs so far.
I write on a daily basis and it is something i am doing out of immense joy.

click any of the images to see them enlarged

Tatiana Roumelioti is a self-taught and intuitive artist from Athens, Greece. You can see more of her work here.

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categories In Handwriting
tags Tatiana Roumelioti, Language, Alphabets, Meaning, Characters, Invented Language, Communication System, Ancient Languages, Symbols, Manuscripts, hieroglyphs, Play

In Review • International Handwriting Day 2016

Bretty Rawson

On January 23rd, 2016, Handwritten celebrated National Handwriting Day by showcases international alphabets. We opened a call to hand-writers around the world, and received characters of all kinds, including invented alphabets, like the one above by writer and artist Tatiana Roumelioti. Halfway through the day, we even received four letters from The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, which are forthcoming in their new anthology Pen to Paper. Though we celebrate on this scale once a year, the pen party never stops. Enjoy the work we received below, and stay tuned for our celebration in 2017. 

1. Creative Quotables.

2. Letters from The Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

3. Poems from around the world.

4. Invented, Real, Permanent, No Longer.

5. Messages of Love.

6. #BICDROP

What does seeing all this make you want to do? Hopefully, pick up a pen. But after such an incredibly fun and wide-reaching celebration of handwriting this past weekend, all we can think about doing is one giant #bicdrop. And thanks to our brilliant graphics design, Megan Sykes, for providing us with a way to express this feeling.


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categories Handwriting Day, In Person
tags Handwritten, Alphabets, Poetry, Messages, Correspondence, Postcards, Quotes, Letters, BicDrop

I Don't Create With Any Intention of Meaning • Tatiana Roumelioti

Bretty Rawson

It'd odd how the simple coordination of individual strokes leads to the immediate recognition of meaning. But what happens when those strokes are combined new lines? Artist Tatiana Roumelioti has been exploring the bridge between art and words. You could say she's invented an alphabet, but that would be putting meaning where there is none. And so, we leave her words as they are, and their meaning up to you. 

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categories Winter 2016, In Handwriting
tags Tatiana Roumelioti, Alphabets, Invented Language, Shapes, Communication, Glyphs, Symbols, Scripts, Letters, Imagination, National Handwriting Day