Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on November 5, 2015 at 12:31am

I've blogged some image-text work from visual poet Carl Baker (Canada).

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/digital-mail-art-by-ca...

Comment by Richard Canard on November 4, 2015 at 12:54am

03.11.15 Dare John M.Bennett, ..."Ficus Strangulensis messes with a poem by John M. Bennett."  ...but John, you do that sort of thing all the time & encourage others to do it.  ... well,  I will have to admit that it  looks pretty good & is always of interest. Ave uh nez dae. Richard Canard

Comment by Grethe Bjørnhaug on November 4, 2015 at 12:27am

Thank you very much for your answer, Fike. I really appreciate that :)

Comment by De Villo Sloan on November 4, 2015 at 12:23am

I am contemplating, probably for a long time: "that people talk about an absence when the thing that can be measured [meaning or hazard] is only implied by speaking of its opposite."

The messed-with piece is great, I think

Comment by John M. Bennett on November 4, 2015 at 12:18am

Ficus strangulensis messes with a poem by John M. Bennett

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on November 4, 2015 at 12:09am

Dear Grethe.

I was making a general statement and did not have your recent posting in mind when I wrote it. I guess I was making two points. One, that meaning is in the eye of the beholder like seeing a horse in the clouds and the other that people talk about an absence when the thing that can be measured [meaning or hazard] is only implied by speaking of its opposite.

I find your pieces attractive and pretty good imitations of handwritten text.

Y'r [new] ol' Bud,

Fike

Comment by Grethe Bjørnhaug on November 3, 2015 at 10:55pm

Ficus strangulensis. I have to ask you. Is it my pictures, you are talking about, or is it a completely different conversation?

Comment by De Villo Sloan on November 3, 2015 at 2:12pm

Fike, some of the most "highly regarded" visual poets - apparently including you - are very skeptical about asemic writing as a genre. Most prefer to see it as another brand of vispo

So in this group we have always been very open to anyone's views on the subject. (JMB was posting broken sticks for a while.) And a lot of vispo appears here that has a preoccupation with written language and meaning.

So your point is well taken. To render something "meaningless" is a tall order indeed, I agree. Some of the invented glyphs and scripts we see here can't be "read" in a conventional way. I will say that.

Please share what you discover running things through filters. I know both Jim Leftwich and I use (at least sometimes) a process of deconstructing existing text into ruins and then reconstructing into something new.

Thx Fike

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on November 3, 2015 at 1:57pm

AND --- from an 'artist' who can't draw [YOB, fike] there are some filters for Filter Forge which offer automatic asemic scribbling. I will 'mess' widdem and report back.

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on November 3, 2015 at 1:54pm

I'm thinking that a parallel could be drawn twixt asemicity and safety.

Neither is possible or entirely possible. All that may be guaranteed are a reduced degree of semicity or hazard.

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