Language signs

"The Law" - Marita Moreno Ferreira (Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm - Private collector)

Language is a curious thing. You take it for granted, like everything you get used too. Reading is one of my favorite things; and writing. Not being able to read some alphabets is a great handicap. But the pleasure you get trying to imagine what all the alien signs mean is amazing. I started drawing some of these symbols pretending they could be a written language. Soon after they got a life of their own and when I draw them now, I pick them like letters, assuming meanings and intentions they only have in my mind.