A few quotes by Denis Brown
from documentation accompanying The Music of Ink DVD movie*
*included on all DVD discs in PDF format and also as a printed book supplied only with the Deluxe edition.

 

‘...a calligraphy which draws a line in the dust of history and challenges calligraphers to cross it and step into the present’.

 

‘I present challenging ideas about calligraphy at a time when handwriting is being eclipsed by technology. Rather than feel threatened by such, I perceive a renaissance of opportunity’.

 

‘I feel the need for a broader edge to our nibs; i.e., calligraphy should interact with contemporary life rather than be a vehicle for escapism, as is sadly common’.

 

‘Now we are experiencing the demise of handwriting, never mind calligraphy. I believe if calligraphy is to recover any relevance in a broader sense than its own narrow practice, then every calligrapher should acknowledge and address this issue'.

 

Regarding ink dripped into water:
‘I simply let the ink generate its own calligraphy. My artistic input was as observer and documenter; nature made the calligraphy, not me. This seems to me a highly relevant calligraphy in my experience and development; perhaps even an enlightenment, an illumination by darkest black’.

 

 

Quotes by Denis Brown from the documentation accompanying The Music of Ink DVD movie included on the DVD disc in PDF format and also as a printed book supplied only with the Deluxe edition.