Silvia Ferrara

“There’s an alphabet in things, and it’s no coincidence. If you pay attention, if you really look, you’ll see that all around you is an architecture of letters, emerging from the shapes of things. It seems almost obvious: our sense of vision is much more alert to lines, to contrasts, than to the flat or formless surfaces that contain them. What’s happening at the edges, the borders, the interstices—that’s what strikes our eyes.”
― Silvia Ferrara, The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

“along with the aroma of three ingredients that affect us in powerful ways, engaging our intellect, our logical skills, and our intuition. All three challenge us to understand one another more deeply and truly. They help us to better see the world, to recognize and reorganize the data we absorb from our environment, and to piece it all together. They are mystery, competition, experiment.”
― Silvia Ferrara, The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts