What is Folk Art Technology?

“Folk Art” is typically marked by such characteristics as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, and strong forms in simple arrangements that convey immediate meaning. “Techno” as in “technology”  refers to grammar as an art, craft, skill, method and system. Before grammar became associated with sentence structure, it referred to the structure of words — the technique of arranging the letters. Thus, the spelling of words is a grammatical art. All this leads to what Folk Art Technology is: Decorative art forms that integrate lettered blocks to paint word pictures for transmitting meaningful expressions.

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