Pludwinski also considers contemporary takes on Hebrew calligraphy, with the fourth chapter showing letters stretched to their breaking point of legibility, sometimes pushing the form to the point ...

The calligraphy is shaky, said Spencer Chen, who realized his father knew he was dying as he wrote the love letter to his wife. “When my dad died, I was very young,” Sabrina Lozano said.

At the start of my first lesson in Chinese calligraphy, my teacher told me to write my name. After I scrawled it out, he said, plainly: “Now I will teach you how to write your name.