The Written Image

Heaven’s Vault, a video game by inkle, requires players to translate the runes of an ancient language.

An author tells a fantastical story by writing it a word at a time in the snow.

Artist Basia Irland carves book sculptures out of ice and embeds them with seeds that populate riverbanks when the sculptures melt. 

Siglio Press has released a book on poet Bernadette Mayer’s project Memory, in which she wrote and took photos every day during July 1971, creating a lyrical testament to a moment in a life, intimately conjured yet still inevitably out of reach.