The Stone Dance of the Chameleon

Quya - a glyph for "a stranger in paradise"

I shall look in detail at how I composed the glyph for kuxeon tyakuxeo turu yedákóknátláx "a stranger in paradise"...

Looking first at the word kuxeon which is composed of the glyphic components:


	kuxe which is a logogram for the verb "to be"

and could have been written from the syllabary instead as:

and...

terminator

for the terminated n we could have used instead:

ná

terminator

so that we end up with our first whole word:


	kuxeon

The next word we need to write is tyakuxeo which is composed of the glyphic components:

tya

kuxe

which combine to make the single column glyph:


	tyakuxeo which shows an unusual way of combining the elements according to the aesthetic opportunity presented by the first two components sharing the same 'face' element. This opportunity is then fully exploited by the addition of a small o component at the foot of the glyph which thus allows the word to be represented, elegantly, by a single column...

The next word is turu which could be written by combining the following two components from the syllabary:

but which, instead, I chose to write using another logogram:


	turu which is composed of the glyph components "woman" and "stone"...

The next word is yedákóknátláx which I've written using the following components from the syllabary:

dá

kó

kná

tlá

terminator


	yedákóknátláx. Note how many of the components overlap those above them, contrary to general practice, either for reasons of legibility or else aesthetics...

The sentence kuxeon tyakuxeo turu yedákóknátláx could be written with a glyph for each word thus:

But for use in the books, I chose to write the whole sentence as a single glyph thus:

or as Neil Gower rendered this:

The diagram given above is one of my 'construction sites' which is how I 'assemble' the glyph components from the syllabary to compose a glyph.

(click on the image to expand it)