Marking Meaning

[ID: Thick charcoal markings gather like cursive in an unknown language, interrupted at the top by white looping gestures. A row of peach orbs, faintly outlined, tilts down and to the right. Two intricate white ladders are etched in the charcoal markings like bridges. A dark green line like a knotted string stretches from the lowest peach circle, forming a faint lower boundary.]

[ID: Two thick saffron lines curve toward one another like parentheses, enclosing soft-edged light cerulean rectangles and a stack of curving dark green markings. Outside the parentheses on the left is another rectangle, larger, with two knotted green lines coming off from the bottom, and another to the left with two nodes marked with p and pp. A messy peach circle with a clean outline, an outline with no color; a linden green circle summits the parentheses as though about to roll off.]

[ID: An abstract diagram of three orbs: sea foam, linden green, a smaller one in cerulean. Lines bisect the circles, moving up and across; arrows curve off to the right. Faint etchings of looping cursive hover on the top left with a line over the top like a border. On a line bisecting the sea foam orb is the word “cello.” Floating off to the right: a cryptic math problem.]

[ID: A two-runged peach ladder hovers between a saffron yellow orb and a smaller sea foam orb. Green knotted lines curve from the ladder to the yellow orb. Cursive markings lie beneath the shapes like a caption.]

[ID: Two green orbs placed at the top of the page establish the left and right boundaries of the drawing. Between them, broad, swooping lines in the same green cascade down the page. These swoops suggest writing and brushwork. Charcoal markings and thinner white markings follow the green swoops, sometimes overlapping, and break off midway down. The white markings, which also resemble writing, overlap the green but also venture beyond into the blank of the page. A yellow saffron line, somewhat long and rectangular, leans against an arrow that curves downward. Directly above the yellow saffron rectangle, moving along the same diagonal pointing toward the green swoops, is a thin, white ladder.]