Aoi Yamaguchi
Calligrapher
At some point in history, the Japanese stopped writing vertically. Nowadays, it may be rare to find people who write by hand at all. Aoi Yamaguchi is a San Francisco-based calligrapher who aims to liberate the calligraphic arts from the static page. She puts on live calligraphy performances in collaboration with dancers and fashion models, giving three-dimensional expression to writing’s sense of time, passion, emotion, stillness and motion. Yamaguchi reminds us what it is like to write. The letters pulse with a beating rhythm and the written word lives on.
Calligrapher
Aoi Yamaguchi
Calligrapher
At some point in history, the Japanese stopped writing vertically. Nowadays, it may be rare to find people who write by hand at all. Aoi Yamaguchi is a San Francisco-based calligrapher who aims to liberate the calligraphic arts from the static page. She puts on live calligraphy performances in collaboration with dancers and fashion models, giving three-dimensional expression to writing’s sense of time, passion, emotion, stillness and motion. Yamaguchi reminds us what it is like to write. The letters pulse with a beating rhythm and the written word lives on.