{"id":260,"date":"2012-01-26T13:15:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2012-01-26T21:18:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T05:18:25","slug":"nyctograph-an-oxford-english-dictionary-word-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Nyctograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a vague notion that nyctograph was a form of writing but I had to google the word to find out its proper definition. I found several hits that stated it was a form of night writing, without the aid of illumination, devised by Lewis Carroll. I could not however, find the actual symbols Carroll used.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how many times I have attempted to write notes in the dark of night and find the next morning what I had written was difficult to read.<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of a symbol system using a template rather than graph paper. I could use any available scrap of paper or even my arm. I took to writing on myself when I was giving art sessions at a maximum security forensic facility.<\/p>\n<p>This is a sample of the grid template that I found at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nyctography\" >Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/WikiNyctograph_reconstruction.jpg\" alt=\"Nyctograph\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I pretty much use Morse and Tap Code, or reference to them in my work. Coding for me started when I made a series of bronze daggers and titled them after folks who were particularly difficult. I couldn\u2019t leave it at that so I devised a code based on my nephew\u2019s name and date of birth disguising the actual names. This piece is titled <i>Filfeh,<\/i> which does not exactly follow the rules of spelling. A few other titles were, <i>Anoa<\/i>, <i>Nivner<\/i>, <i>Reima<\/i>, <i>Anxen<\/i>, and <i>Frea<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Scarry16_Dagger7V2.jpg\" alt=\"Dagger\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have attempted to use other codes\u2013<a href=\" http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ogham\">Celtic Tree Ogham<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pigpen_cipher\" >Pigpen Cipher<\/a> but they haven\u2019t worked with the materials I was using. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='float-left'  src=\"\/images\/Wiki100px-Ogham_Con.jpg\" alt=\"Ogham\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='float-left' src=\"\/images\/Wiki220px-Pigpen_cipher.jpg\" alt=\"Pigpen\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><br class='clear-both' \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they will find their way into a series in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a vague notion that nyctograph was a form of writing but I had to google the word to find out its proper definition. I found several hits that stated it was a form of night writing, without the aid of illumination, devised by Lewis Carroll. I could not however, find the actual symbols &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nyctograph<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}