It's like calligraphy with invisible ink, making it as predictable as, well, a dance about calligraphy.
"To me it's all calligraphy," Berkenblit said.
Al aleph the Arabic equivalent of the letter A has to be drawn in certain proportions, or technically it's not calligraphy.
It is a calligraphy student's graduation certificate, with writing in different sizes and scripts, by the student himself.
A storage jar decorated with vertical gray lines is calligraphy as pure abstraction, but it is artfully placed next to a narrative hanging scroll, "The Pinch".
Behind all of that is calligraphy and landscape painting".
"Nowhere else in the world is calligraphy as important and as widely dispersed in the arts as in Islamic societies," Professor Madina said.
Huang took his first pictures as a teenager, inspired by an uncle in an era when the obvious hobbies for the young were calligraphy and singing.
He is technical; it's just soulless calligraphy - but I'm not criticizing a fellow-filmmaker.
"It is like calligraphy," he said.
