The carved mark and the inconsistencies of handwriting allow the words to be much more intimate (in the same way that a handwritten thank you is more personal and touching than a typed form letter). This connection with the text is important because not only am I using Faulkner's words but I am also personalizing the text by journaling/meditatively writing it. By paralleling this text style with the close, continual stream of words dissolving into letters the viewer can get lost in the text much like getting lost in your thoughts.
Since learning to write backwards I have noticed a number of side effects: spastically trying to start reading a page from the right, then the left, then the--no no the left, opening books from the back, filling out forms bottom to top which led to everything being one line off.
All became rather backasswards when I started transposing the text onto my woodblock. I got lost in a dyslexic cloud of letters because I was referencing a normally written passage while actually writing it all backwards (R to L and mirror-imaged). Literally backasswards. But take heart, I checked that the letters were properly backwards in a mirror. Also interesting fact, Leonardo da Vinci wrote mirror-image backwards too. The obvious end to this fact: that I am a genius CERTAINLY NOT--that da Vinci was a printmaker at heart and hand mhm.
