Arboglyphes is the sequel to Jephan de Villiers' book, Figures of Silence, published in 2021.

Jephan de Villiers' writings fly from conscience to conscience. They might be Arabic, Indian or African. Ho­rizontal or vertical, over the years they have become a series of musical scores. Scales, even. Not a day goes by without him writing.

"I always write standing up, as if my body was already moving towards something else, the other, as if I was about to move across the paper."

Every day, this...