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POEMS & MANIFESTOS - Visual Poetry
WHERE VISUAL FORM MEETS LANGUAGE
Poetry and manifestos form an integral part of Ontoglyphic Writing, emerging from the same creative experience as its visual forms.
While the poems give language to sensations, rhythms, and images, the manifestos articulate the artist’s personal reflections on flow, presence, and the act of creation.
Together, they reveal a reflective dimension of the practice, in which visual expression and written language develop in dialogue with one another.
Poem I
Echoes of the Silent Song
Ink flows yet no song and no sound is heard,
Figures dance without a word.
Silent whispers, soft and long,
Echo through the stillness strong.
A song unsung, a tale untold, in blackened strokes the story’s bold.
MANIFESTO
Each mark becomes a note beyond hearing, each gesture a voice beyond language.
Echoes of the Silent Song
Ontoglyphic Writing, No. I
Hand-ground Japanese sumi black ink on music manuscript paper
7 December 2024
Forgotten Melody
Ontoglyphic Writing, No. II
Hand-ground Japanese sumi black ink on music manuscript paper
December 2024
POEM II
Forgotten Melody
"A Song Once Lost, Now Found Again"
Shadows dance, the notes grow still,
A song once bright, now lost at will.
MANIFESTO
“No voice to guide, no hand to play!”
Poem III
Dance of the forgotten notes
“No voice to guide, no hand to play!”
Creatures leap; both small and tall.
Animals, flowers, one and all.
A world comes alive in a single stroke, its figures moving together in an unplanned dance.
MANIFESTO
"No voice commands the movement. No hand follows a score. Yet something begins to dance. Nothing is written to be read. Everything is born to be felt."
Dance of the forgotten notes
Ontoglyphic Writing, No. III
Hand-ground Japanese sumi black ink on manuscript paper
December 2024
Poem IV
The Dance of the Shadow notes
On a page of ancient lore,
Shadows leap, and spirits soar.
Lines of ink, both bold and free,
Weave a song of mystery.
Each dark form a note in flight,
Dancing in the golden light.
Harmony, both lost and found,
Echoes softly, all around.
Through the chaos, beauty grows,
A hidden melody softly flows.
Silent figures, secrets keep,
When music wakes and shadows leap.
MANIFESTO
Every shadow carries a rhythm. Every gesture holds a silent note.
Where sound fades, a hidden dance begins.
The Dance of the Shadow Notes
Ontoglyphic Writing, No. IV
Hand-ground Japanese sumi black ink on manuscript paper
December 2024
WHEN SOUND BECOMES FORM
Two Musical Encounters
Music is central to the emergence of Ontoglyphic Writing. Two works document the relationship between the artist’s visual practice
and the musicians whose compositions inspired them: The Song of the Golden Dragon, created in response to the music of Estas Tonne,
and Sweet Djembe, inspired by Canadian singer-songwriter Jackie Findlay.
Created in response to “The Song of the Golden Dragon”, a musical composition by Estas Tonne.
“No voice to guide, No hand to play”
Across this practice, Blanka explores how an intangible experience can take visible form without losing the singularity of the moment from which it emerges. Her work moves between stillness and movement, sound and silence, intuition and awareness.
The Song of the Golden Dragon
Blanka Blinx Križ
Ontoglyphic Writing, 2025
Hand-ground Japanese sumi black ink on music manuscript paper
Inspired by the musical composition The Song of the Golden Dragon by Estas Tonne.
Original artwork personally presented to Estas Tonne in Slovenia, March 2025.
Blanka Blinx Križ with Estas Tonne, Slovenia, March 2025
THE STORY BEHIND THE WORK
WHEN MUSIC TAKES FORM
The Song of the Golden Dragon emerged through Blanka Križ’s intuitive response to the music of guitarist Estas Tonne. Created in a meditative state, the work translates the movement and vibration of sound into a visual composition of spontaneous, gestural forms.
For Blanka, Tonne’s music has been a profound creative influence, opening a space in which sound, movement, and visual expression become inseparable.
In March 2025, what began as a personal wish became a meaningful encounter when Blanka met the musician during his visit to Slovenia and presented him with the original artwork.
The moment brought the creative process full circle: a work born from music returned to the musician whose sound had inspired its creation.
Created in response to “Sweet Djembe”
by Canadian singer-songwriter Jackie Findlay, from her album Blue Pearl.
Poem V
Through the dance of notes
Beauty grows. A hidden
melody softly flows. Silent
figures, secrets keep.
Blanka Blinx Križ
Ontoglyphic Writing, 26 June 2026
Hand-ground Japanese sumi black ink on music manuscript paper.
Created in response to Jackie Findlay’s song Sweet Djembe, featured on her album Blue Pearl.
Original artwork gifted to Jackie Findlay and sent to Canada, 2026.
Sweet Djembe
THE STORY BEHIND THE WORK
WHERE MUSIC CONNECTS
An unexpected artistic connection brought Blanka Križ and Canadian singer-songwriter Jackie Findlay together through the language of art and music.
While listening to Findlay’s album Blue Pearl, Blanka was drawn to the song Sweet Djembe. Its rhythm and atmosphere became the starting point for an Ontoglyphic composition, allowing the music to unfold into spontaneous visual forms.
What began as an encounter between sound and gesture grew into a personal connection between the two artists — as though invisible golden threads had brought their creative worlds together.
After completing the artwork, Blanka shared it with Findlay and later gifted her the original piece, sending it to Canada.
Jackie Findlay with Sweet Djembe,
following the artwork’s arrival in Canada, 2026
What begins as sound becomes a gesture.
What becomes a gesture finds its way into another life.
Beyond these individual works, poetry and manifestos also inhabit the pages of Liber ONTHOglyphic of Flow — Volume I. Within the manuscript, they become part of a wider artistic structure, connecting visual writing with the book’s original Codex of Breaths.