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The Desdemona Alphabet

Desdemona

Glen Kealey did not draw this alphabet. He read it. Every letter and numeral is a pictograph with a story in it, and decoding them is where the rest of his work starts. Open any letter for the original page.

Reduced motion is on, so this is a settled frame.

Start by acquiring copies of Freemasonry's secret Encyclopedias. Read them through and through.

WHAT IS MASONRY ?, December 2, 2009

The Letters

A–Z · 26 glyphs

The Numerals

0–9 · 10 glyphs

Working sketches

Working sheets: the glyphs copied out by hand and annotated as he read them.

Glen Kealey's hand-drawn working sheet of Desdemona letters, annotated
Glen Kealey's hand-drawn notes working through the Desdemona "@" glyph

Specimen sheets

Reference sheets and the themed page, on the preserved 2002 site.