Signs

A sign carries a whole idea in a single mark, the way a road sign does. The rest of the language works the other way around: you set atoms next to each other until they add up to a meaning. A sign skips that and holds the idea outright.

Signs are not invented to fill gaps. One is only made after the same idea has already turned up often enough in my own work to earn it, and then the drawing is chosen by hand out of the quarry. Nothing here was designed because it would look good.