Cleveland artist George Fitzpatrick has been creating work for nearly 60 years, since he was a high school student at West Tech with an intense focus on making art.

One of his major focuses since 1974 has been his “word drawings,” works with calligraphic-style designs based on texts of archeological works, ancient literature, and historical art subjects. He’s created more than a thousand such drawings, favoring a paper used by Japanese Buddhist monks to create their prayer scrolls, using a painstaking process that allows for no mistakes. That process imbues the works with meditative feel.