These nibs in the Supreme Court Gardens of Perth symbolise the importance of pen and ink to record-keeping in the Victorian era. Our workshop in Perth however, was a pencil workshop, beginning with people composing a short quotation in a square using what they had learnt from analysing Kilian's piece. I loved watching the really quiet intense concentration in everyone's posture as they worked out their designs.   By noon the next day each person had inscribed their quotation in 23.5c … [Read more...]