Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley, alphabetician

THE WEFT AND WARP OF THE DREAM

L.K. possesses an instinctive attraction to the interplay of letters within languages and the mystery of eternity. As an alphabetician, she fulfills the dream of engraving letters onto enduring materials, leaving behind imprints of humanity’s existence on Earth.

L.K.’s dream intertwines the Weft—a consciously chosen path—and the Warp, a parallel journey shaped by influences and events beyond will or control.

The warp of the dream generates meaningful coincidences that, from childhood, guide L.K. toward the representational power of letters in life, science, and art. Her father, a cytologist, studied the genetic information encoded in the DNA of cells through the combinatory play of the letters A, C, G, and T. She is captivated by her mother’s calligraphy and by the marvel of allowing imagination to guide the hand in inscribing marks on paper.

L.K. harnesses the power of these profound and unconscious influences to begin weaving the fabric of her dream, asserting the freedom to express herself in the present while envisioning a world beyond life. She creates funerary monuments for small animals and invents writings for her friends to read in the glow of candles, using lemon juice on paper to reveal the text against the light.

For L.K., paper becomes a transitory surface to a timeless world that captivates her. This allure is so intense that, as a teenager, it drives her to a suicidal act in an attempt to explore what lies beyond life. She undergoes an out-of-body experience from which she emerges deeply committed to using the courage that brought her to the edge of existence to dedicate herself to becoming who she truly wants to be, embracing a life to be celebrated every day.

At twenty-one, L.K. encounters her destiny at a type design conference. His name is David Kindersley, forty years her senior—an alphabetician, creator, and composer of letters. L.K. falls in love with both the craft and the man. She becomes aware of her dream: to practice a craft in absolute psychological freedom, one that honours her natural inclinations for the creative use of alphabetic letters and allows her to engage with her instinctive reflections on themes of mortal life, the passage of time, and eternity.

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