Artist/ Writer/ Entrepreneur
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Calligraphy is often defined as “beautiful writing”. In practice it can be anything but. It’s trembling & showing up to one’s short comings. It’s slow incremental shifts in habits of hand & life. Each calligraphic stroke is a visual-historical map of intersecting languages, sacred traditions & cultural legacies—oppression, beauty, resistance, prayer. Each stroke begins in the place before language gets born—unseen place where moving gesture touches page & words, like legacies, are renewed. Or rewritten.
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Brush & Reed is a place where many voices live dedicated to the fine arts of communication. Click here to learn more about workshops, retreats, curations, & community projects.
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Email Jena Argenta : info@jenaargenta.com or call 505-504-3393
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Your writing is all around me/ it doesn’t leave my bed/ there is healing in it for what I have been concealing—al Qushayrī Trans Kristin Zahra Sands
Communication Arts aren’t just the business of advertising strategists, lawyers, & eighth grade English teachers.
They’re not just sentiments, but sediments: They’re part of our human inheritance.
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Tell me your voice remembers it’s grain & can speak to what made you.
Tell me your utterance is braided, aware of its legacies & also its breach.
Tell me you know how words are talismans, part physicality, part conjuring, part dream.
Tell me you know how to write on apartheid walls, visible/ invisible, & press until they fall.
Tell me you know how these arts are also used to build walls, sell them, hold them up.
Tell me you want to be more than a tourist in your own life.
Tell me when you love its for more than just yourself.