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This a drawing from a series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of ideograms done with a large brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of a page from a notebook of drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of ideograms housed in a rotary file. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of ideograms done on six porcelain eggs with a dark background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of ideograms done on six porcelain eggs with a light background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of a facing pages from a notebook of drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of a facing pages from a notebook of drawings. These drawings depict larger ideograms than the other cards with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of Malik laying out a large scroll upon the top of a wall. This card shows Malik in the foreground. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of Malik laying out a large scroll upon the top of a wall. This card shows Malik in the background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of ideographic scrolls wrapped around trees in the black forrest. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a photographic reproduction of a grid of six pictures depicting ideographic scrolls wrapped around trees in the black forrest. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The writing of the made-up ideograms in the book is in acrylic mainly with Rapidiograph 0.13 to 0.25 mm fine. In the last section, the writing was done with magic marker. On his website (2007) Malik comments on his work as follows. "In 1989 I started the project on daily "Writing" that I have continued ever since. The writing process consists of individual, sign-like characters that never repeat themselves. The traces of movement entail complex lines of a sphere of motion that becomes ever more differentiated. The result cannot be read, or certainly not in the customary sense of the word. The signs of this expansive matrix do not describe anything beyond their own vibration and the curved density of their frequency. It is not their task, claim and meaning to be equivalent or adequate to something "out there", to act as a symbol, or functional script coding information. The moment one releases writing from that intent, something decisive happens in the movement of writing, because...

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The work of Axel Malik consists of repetitive lines of small, calligraphic, abstract figurative drawings in books and paper sheets. His works are precisely drawn and resemble lines of text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a letter to Marvin Sackner sent with this catalogue, Axel Malik writes, "As this catalogue has an English translation as well, it might be of interest to you. It features my biggest work of 'concrete writing', a piece of enormous dimensions, 6,20 meters wide and 20 meters long. As you can see on one photo on my web-site, the help of mountainclimbers was needed for the installation at the Broadcast-Studio of the SWR. During the exhibition it was possible to travel along the work by taking an transparent elevator. With best wishes and greeting, Axel." The catalogue coincided with exhibitions at the Dombibliothek Hildesheim in 2003 and SWR Studio Freiburg in 2004. Included is an interview between Elamr Zorn and Axel Mmalk on December 11, 2004 in the SWR Studio Freiburg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The sound of the compact disc is the sound of writing on paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Malik draws ideograms in one motion of the pen without the pen leaving the surface as in automatic writing. He also uses ink on a brush in the same way. The compact disc is a recording of the pen moving on the paper that gives a sensibility of sound poetry. The catalogue depicts works done from 1989 to 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.