Showing posts with label calligraphy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calligraphy. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2012

Ho Offers Calligraphy Catalog




A 24-page catalog of Ho, the amputee calligrapher's original work is now available from Malaysia.  The self-taught calligrapher managed to develop her own style of calligraphy after losing her upper limbs after an accident in 1990.
A Sample Page of Ho's Unique Calligraphy
The cost is $6.00 or RM18 plus $3.00 or RM9 postage. Contact:
He Lan Gui, 12F Jalan Hanag Jabet, 75200 Malacca Malaysia






Sunday, January 22, 2012

HOE --AN INSPIRED AMPUTEE CALLIGRAPHER

Meet Hoe, whom I met on my recent trip to SE Asia to teach mirror therapy ... one of the most amazing people on the face of the earth. --Moira Judith Mann


Hoe, a 42-year old double upper limb amputee is a self-taught calligrapher who started practicing the art twenty years ago after an industrial accident in China severed her left arm and her right hand.

 Hoe straps a calligraphy brush to her right arm stub and then, as she reports, uses her phantom hand to guide her strokes.

 Hoe produces calligraphy by donation from a street stand in Malaka, Malaysia, supporting two daughters going to university in China with her earnings.

Even twenty years after her accident, Hoe experiences phantom limb pain, particularly in the remaining stub of her left arm. End The Pain Project has taken steps to relieve this pain through various methods, including Farabloc and an EMF band.


Hoe has great dignity and focuses on perfecting her calligraphy style. She hopes to inspire other amputees through her efforts.

Hoe explaining her calligraphy at her street stand in Melaka, Malaysia.

 Hoe and Moira Judith Mann, Co-Founder of End The Pain Project in December 2011, Melaka Malaysia.


In February, 2012, Shannon Nill, an upper arm amputee from Oregon, displays the calligraphy created for him by Hoe in gratitude for an EMF band donated by Nill that helps her sleep. Nill uses the EMF band for sounder sleep as well.