Sam Roxas-Chua 姚, DESIDERATA. Microscope slides with asemic writing. Reprinted from Echolalia in Script: A Collection of Asemic Writing, copyright © 2017 Sam Roxas-Chua 姚, by permission of Orison Books, Inc.

Sam Roxas-Chua 姚, FATHERLING. Sumi-e and squid ink, 8˝ × 11.5˝. Reprinted from Echolalia in Script: A Collection of Asemic Writing, copyright © 2017 Sam Roxas-Chua 姚,
by permission of Orison Books, Inc.

Historical marker outside the old Chatmon house in Bolton, MS. Photo by the author. 

Label from the original 78 record by the Mississippi Sheiks as shown on a historical marker in Bolton, MS. Photo by the author.

Carol Burnett in 1963’s Calamity Jane