Codex Hexapoda is an experimental piece where I’ve brought together acrylic paint, collage, asemic writing, gesso, and graphite on paper. I wanted it to feel like a page from a book that doesn’t exist, something part science, part imagination.
The central insect image comes from an old printed page I found and pasted in. It acts almost like a specimen in a natural history notebook, grounding the rest of the piece. Around it, I built layers of scribbled symbols, circles, and diagrams marks that look like writing and scientific notation but can’t actually be read. For me, this is a way of exploring how we create meaning through repetition, pattern, and suggestion, rather than through literal words. I also like the contrast between the rough, earthy browns and the pale gesso areas. Together they give the surface a worn, almost archival quality, as if it’s something unearthed rather than freshly made.
When I worked on this piece, I wasn’t aiming for clarity or explanation. Instead, I wanted to leave the impression of a record something caught between language, drawing, and memory. Codex Hexapoda is less about what it says and more about the feeling that there’s something just out of reach, waiting to be understood.
Codex Hexapoda
insect fractured paper skin torn
scribble static circles bleed equations
fly pinned mute archive hums
broken glyphs cough dust
cut language split diagrams
half words crawl backward
buzzing archive burned edges
meaning slips out unread
Cut up poetry Generator by Danial Sanjrani
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