~graphist?

/ artist / photographer / designer /

/ typographer / illustrator / animator /

I could claim, with some justification, to be all or any of the above having exhibited as an artist, published as a poet & trained as a graphic designer. None of these actually describe the complexity or multi-disciplinary nature of my practice. What each touches upon however, is the rather nebulous concept of ~graphology (by extension its practitioners — ~graphists).

~graphology in this context relates to the means, process and act of communication. Not limited to written or oral texts, ~graphology is both suffix and prefix to all terms originating from the greek graphé. An all-embracing term and philosophy that sees the interconnectedness / commonality / communality of the communicative process rather than seeking to contain / limit / constrict it within rigidly defined terminologies and ideologies.

I am therefore a ~graphist. 

/ communicator / image-maker / iconoclast / linguist / philosopher / chancer / all-and-none-of-the-above /