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There is something I'd like to share with you, something I'd ask you to think about.
And I hope that if you are actually practicing and you've had some experience with this,
you'll have a little more sympathy for what I have to say. Sometimes I'll meet someone
and they'll ask me what I do and I tell them that I'm a calligrapher and then they say,
oh you do Chinese calligraphy? And then I get stumped because I don't know what to say.
I don't know how to explain to them that, no I'm actually American and there is such
a thing as western calligraphy and I do that. I don't know what to say. But what I do know
is that in these past thirty something years I've certainly had time to pay attention to
the handwriting systems, the calligraphy of other cultures. I've paid attention to the
Asian cultures, I've paid attention to Hebrew. I've paid attention to Arabic and other systems
of handwriting. And what I want you to understand is that there are actually more likenesses
to the calligraphies of different systems of handwriting and different languages then
there are differences. So what do I mean by that, well likenesses in that in every system
of handwriting the whole business of spacing is an important aspect, and important characteristics.