MIRRORING

I have written about mirrored drums and inverted guitar elsewhere, but I would like to show a few examples of mirrored writing.

I made the simple observation that one reason we write the way we do, writing from left to right, from the top of the page, is that in this way we don’t smudge the writing with our palm. Therefore, I decided to learn mirrored writing, instead of plainly shifting the pencil to the left hand and pushing, rather than pulling the tip across the page. 

I have upheld a daily practise of writing my immediate thoughts down in this mirrored manner. It was very awkward at first, and it takes a strong motivation to keep up the effort, but gradually, the writing is becoming more fluent, and also the ability to read the mirrored letters is expanding. I can’t say too much about it yet, but I sometimes get a peculiar sense of unknowing when writing with the left hand. The hand can’t keep up with the thoughts, so I tend to write in a slightly more uncertain, poetic style than with the more confident right hand.