Piercing Cultural Hegemony

Writing

A kind of

Shadow Play

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Both Egyptians and Chinese cultures believed that pictographic writing shapes not only the reader, but also the writer. In both traditions, emptiness is essential. The reader must remain open to new knowledge, while the writer aspires to become a living canvas for the universe.

As in shadow play storytelling, thoughts, feelings, intuition, and sensations perform on the canvas of the mind. The empty spaces within and around the writing hold what is left unsaid, ready to awaken in the reader's imagination.

Over time, writing and shadow-play storytelling evolved into pantomime, where Fools took the stage to express what words could not, giving shape to the inexpressible. Eventually, film united these arts, using images and light projected on a screen to conjure worlds from emptiness.

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