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 the absence of things returns in the concentrated present as the expanding intensity of the moment, which enters into the core of the script itself. The focus is on the heterogeneous dynamism and unpredictable potentiality of the movement of writing itself, on that reality.email trialogue 2010: Malik - My art-project, called "The Scriptural Method' (see also: www.the-scriptural-method.info) approaches creation and beauty in a very particular way. It would be better if we could look at the work directly now, but I will interpret and describe my project. That's a bit of a crazy, impossible approach, but we are here to have a discussion, not to visit an exhibit, so there is no other way.In 1989 I began a project of daily "writing" which up to today has not been interrupted. This process consists of single, sign-like characters that never repeat themselves in more than eighty "journals' with a total of over 25.000 pages or in delicate year-long writing-processes of up to ten metres in length with several hundreds of thousands of tiny signs. You cannot read this, at least not on the traditional sense. The context is this: deliberately keeping the focus on the movement of writing itself integrates the intention into the spin of the movement. The written line seems to expand due to the added pressure of perception. This creates line-like twists, swirls and turns -- each sign is always one uninterrupted fast movement that forms a differentiated, structural language, a complex and very expansive code. The mind's logic can't measure the geometry of space and time of this structural language, (the information and relationships in the line's structure are its language) and it cannot comprehend the fundamental existential tension and non verbal content of the constant swirls. The unstoppable motion that emerges in the core of the writing movement can't be limited because it has no boundary. The chaotic structure of order, the text that this script results in, occurs not in the conscious, but in the unconscious. The dynamic elasticity of the explosive moments of movement structures expresses a matrix of movement, a constantly expanding and renewed sphere of relationship of never to be repeated twists. The scope of the reservoir of characters and the potential of its inner ability to differentiate don't seem to have an endpoint. Just like language structures, forms and depicts our thinking, the scriptural method forms a language of differentiation on the level of movement.Meaning is then defined as ONE process, which separates and brings together countless individual atoms of movement in ONE network of movement. The moment in which the movement of writing implodes, where no sign is afforded an outer point of reference, is no longer a symbol, no longer points to anything or no longer describes things outside of itself something very notable happens. The absence of things returns as a condensed presence, as an expanding intensity of the moment of the movement of writing itself. And this is what it is about: this structure, this re-structuring, the creative manifestation of the world, within and without. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.