Florida Polytechic Bookless Library, image by Santiago Calatrava Dezeen Ban
I scribbled a note on the crumpled envelope beside the keyboard, revelling in the feel of the pen on the paper. It is a nice pen. Cheap, nothing special to look at, but the ink glides over the virgin white in a way I can only call sensuous… an entirely physical flow that encourages the written word to take on the form and quality of art. My handwriting doesn’t usually look that good. I like this pen.
I have, like most people, several styles of handwriting that come completely spontaneously and seem to depend upon what I am writing and where… as well as the mood. There is the scrawl, almost illegible even to me, which covers pages of notebooks with strange ideas and concepts; sometimes simple, sometimes embellished ‘artistically’ with the kind of swirls and loops that would have…
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Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 