Photography is light writing. Graph means to write, carve, or create.
digraphy
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‘Digigraphy’ as writing or creating things digitally.
Photography is ‘digi-graphy’ — making digital photographs.
Writing or blogging as digigraphy.
Writing digitally
This is interesting — with digital, to scratch or cut into (graphy) isn’t applicable.
In pre-modern times, to write was to literally carve words, signs, images, or picto-grams into cave walls, wood, or other surfaces.
Carving
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The closest to the notion of ‘writing’ [graph] comes from the word ‘gerb‘ — to carve.
The notion of carving is fascinating because:
- To create a statue is to carve it out of a slab of stone.
- To create a photograph is to carve out a portion of it [to frame a scene is to carve out what you consider important]
- To write is to carve your words, thoughts, and ideas onto paper.
Also to style one’s hair (cutting hair) as carving away superfluous hair.
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There are many forms of writing
- Light writing [photography]
- Writing on a piece of paper, or digitally
- Writing as blogging [digitally]
- Speaking or recording videos as graphing (carving) your voice or sound into objects.
Record what is important to you
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You decide what to carve, write, or create. Simply record, document, and create what matters to you. Use light, sound, words, ideas, images, visual, bodily, etc — to graph and write!
ERIC
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