Amsterdam based artist Gayane Yerkanyan works with Armenian letters. She mutates the letters to a degree so that they are no longer recognized as legible forms. Rather they become mesmerizing ink drawings open for interpretation for wider audiences, by offering new visual meaning.
She plays with different rhythms of the black strokes. She puts more attention on the white space itself, rather than the length of the black strokes. She compares it with pauses in music: without pauses the sound will be just noise.
“When I start a piece, I do not know what the end result will be. I let the work to surprise me. I prefer the process to be like a dialogue, rather than a planned and executed piece of work. The creation process is therapeutic and meditative, so I allow myself to be fully absorbed in it”
