The Ideas of
Water Age
Water Age, at its core, is about lost connections, and new ones. It concerns itself with time, and its effect on water and us. It is truly about the journey of water through the ages, through our eyes. By scrutinizing the environment and forms in which water exist with us today, the transient nature of water in every sense, is being magnified. What exactly has passed though? And what is it that is now? This book goes back in history in search of forms that once had immense relationship with man through exploring language of the past.
This is how ‘water’ was written in Aramaic. Derived from Phoenician
script, it is the direct ancestor of modern Hebrew and Arabic script
MIM
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This is how ‘water’ was written in ancient egyptian hieroglyphs.
It is the direct reference for early non-pictographic writing systems
WATER
This is how ’water’ is represented in Korean (Hangul). Hangul is widely classified as
a Language Isolate, one that has no demonstrable derivation from other languages
MUL
물
‘Mak’ represents water in arabic. It constitutes the characters ‘meem’,’ alif’ and ‘ain’, of
which ‘meem’ derives itself from phoenician alphabet, ‘mem’ which represents water
MAK
This is ‘water’ in Hebrew language. It is based upon the 13th alphabet, ‘Mem’ (m),
which in turn was derived from egyptian hieroglyphics
MAYIM
This is how ‘Water’ is written in Hanacaraka, an ancient javanse script based
on a poem about 2 warriors
BAN NYU