Handwritten ritual artifacts: emotional records, ritual pages, memory fragments — written by hand, one breath at a time.
Project Overview
These artifacts are not calligraphy.
They’re not designed to impress.
I design them to hold emotion in motion — writting when it feels real, with the same pen I’ve carried for years, on paper that absorbs both the ink and the moment.
Each artifact is a story fragment or ritual trace, written in my distinct hand: a mix of print and cursive, sometimes trembling, often annotated. These are not perfect, but witnessed.
Medium & Process
- Written using fountain pens, often with archival inks that occasionally bleed
- Paper: cardstock or cotton-based, acid-free, chosen for texture and tone
- Marked by emotion: crossed-out lines, pauses, spacing, breath marks
- Digitally registered in the Living Lore Archive, with metadata: scroll name, date, mood, purpose
Types of Handwritten Ritual Artifacts
- Scrolls: Long horizontal pieces written as single-breath rituals
- Fragments: Torn pages, often messages or inner dialogues
- Letters: Addressed to versions of the self, others, or no one at all
- Companion Inserts: Miniature notes sent with lore drops or found artifacts
These are not documents. They are relics of becoming.
Function & Meaning
Each artifact reflects a symbolic moment:
- A realization
- A threshold
- A reclaiming
- A goodbye
They function as tools of narrative identity — anchoring emotion in form so it can be integrated, not erased.
Current Practice
- Select handwritten ritual artifacts are available as limited editions or commissions
- Others I leave in the world, for strangers to find
- Every artifact is documented, named, and archived
- Each artifact is part of the Keyholder and Echo system
Some of my handwritten ritual artifacts are purely for personal ritual.
Others become gifts, scrolls, or pieces in exhibitions.
“When I write by hand, I don’t edit. I exhale.”
Connections to Other Projects
- Part of the Living Lore Archive: All handwritten artifacts have records here with a unique fragment ID
- Symbolically linked to the Ritual Scrolls: Many artifacts are ritual in intent, even if not instructional
- Reflects the ethos of MythOS: real-time emotional-symbolic processing, preserved