Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook Ballantine beer cans but this one I'm especially

but this one I'm especially fascinated by because of the strangeness of the perspective

) attempt at carving a ball inside of a cage inside of a cage

Plenty of bubbles in the bottle glass

and all the way up from his boot to the grip of the ink pen

Mid to late 19th century I am pretty sure

Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook Ballantine beer cans but this one I'm especiallyI find stenography shorthand fascinating, though I can't decipher a single symbol! Pretty much a lost form at this point, shorthand was is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing, especially used in taking dictation. Of course technology has largely obliterated the need for it, and the capacity to decipher it which makes these pages of intensive mark making now like floating