Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook Ballantine beer cans ) attempt at carving a

) attempt at carving a ball inside of a cage inside of a cage

Plenty of bubbles in the bottle glass

and all the way up from his boot to the grip of the ink pen

with charmingly self-satisfied expression on this child's face as she (I presume) holds mirror up in one hand and the ribbon of the feathered hat in her lap in the other

carved whimsy would make a great

Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook Ballantine beer cans ) attempt at carving aI find stenography shorthand fascinating, though I can't decipher a single symbol! Pretty much a lost form at this point, shorthand was is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing, especially used in taking dictation. Of course technology has largely obliterated the need for it, and the capacity to decipher it which makes these pages of intensive mark making now like floating