An altered book encased in glass and illuminated from below

Nieuwoudt also employs various forms of asemic writing in his work. Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means 'having no specific semantic content'. With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. The secret is that asemic writing is a shadow, impression, and abstraction of conventional writing. It uses the constraints of writerly gestures and the full developments of abstract art to divulge its main purpose: total freedom beyond literary expression.