About the museum

Welcome to the MoC…the Museum of Calligraphy.  A place where ink can run across broad pagescapes…left to right, top to bottom, outwards from the center of a circle, or on that “narrow road to the interior.”  Calligraphy is a journey.  Calligraphy’s museum is that rest station on the side of a craggy mountain in the fog…wood beams, sliding doors, a view of what has been climbed and what awaits…perhaps the pinnacle is obscured by clouds.  The museum is a place to recharge…in silence, if you wish.  Or dialectically…with mirth and with noise.  Use it as you need to.    

About the portfolio

Stevens Studio was the first studio I ever had in a home that was my own.  It was the first place I bought.  I was happy in the borrowed nautili I’d inhabited before, but I was also thrilled to set up the little den into a permanent studio.  The work in this series was experimental, as usual.  One piece in particular that I quite liked making was my self-portrait.  I affixed two brushes to each other with rubber bands…one facing forward and the other at the self.  Me.  And I loaded each with ink and went to work simultaneously on the paper and on myself…

About the artist

Kevin Brown is a California born artist who lived and worked in Japan, Taiwan, and briefly in Vietnam…he is an outsider-calligrapher, in many senses off the word.  Sometimes he literally does calligraphy outside!  He always attempts the experimental…calligraphy, in his sense, is always asemic.  That means that there is no meaning that can be “read” from the marks.  They are illegible.  On purpose.  A visual system that has no index.  An unbreakable code.  A multi-helical fugue of self.  Shouldn’t we insist up and maintain a little of our inscrutability and mystery?  Isn’t the filament of thought, language, something that should have style independent of understanding?  In any event, the calligrapher invites you to enjoy without the burden of understanding.