Asemia

To this end I compiled my own version of Lorem Ipsum by generating text in several of the less widely read languages which I then combined and further garbled up and in a word processing software. The result led me to the notion of asemic writing which is a wordless form of writing, deriving from the Greek word ‘asemic;’ that can be translated as ‘having no specific semantic content’. Through this nonspecificity comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and to interpret since asemic writing has no inherent verbal sense. Nonetheless, asemic writing artifacts may have a clear textual sense which is brought about through formatting and structure, and as such they may visually suggest ‘real’ documents. Drawing meaning from these depend upon the reader's overall sense and knowledge of writing systems, or alternatively such meaning can also be understood or felt through sole aesthetic intuition.