Given the recent theme of writing things backwards or upside down, I thought it was potentially significant that the student wrote the name “backwards” in a sense, but in such a way that the final result was the same as if it had been written in the ordinary way.
That’s the concept of the ambigram (or some kinds anyway): You write something so that it reads the same upside down or backwards as it does read in the ordinary way. Then I realized that the name Varda is virtually a naturally occurring ambigram, requiring very little ingenuity on the part of the artist:
4 comments:
Yay! Ambigrams are back in town!
It's been 15 years since I was making them regularly. Bruce, I think you might be the only reader from back then who's still around.
Beautiful! I've looked at your ambigrams in the past, quite interesting.
D'oh, did it again... That was me.
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