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Comment by cheryl penn on March 29, 2012 at 12:19pm

Welcome to the new members of Collaborative Books :-) X

GREAT to see Cleveland Wall and Richard C in the bag - thank you both X

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 28, 2012 at 3:34pm

And with Richard Canard's Vispo One, came also Cleveland Wall's! 

Fly with Magritte! FAB!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 28, 2012 at 3:31pm

How about a Homage-to-Ray-Johnson?

richard did it...FABulously: 

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 24, 2012 at 4:36am

And with all my Chirot praise - I wish someone who really had a handle on it would comment - somewhere maybe in the early 90s vispo & concrete seemed to me to hit a kind of impass (?). They weren't moving forward then David came along, and of course JMB had been doing it people just needed to catch up to him - some log jam broke that slowed things down and things really started moving and thankfully they seem to be moving still - you know, forms and genres DO freeze up and cease to be productive

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 24, 2012 at 4:31am

Well said NBS and the thing that really impresses me about this chapter by Diane is that it is entirely rooted in language. I suppose you can make some case for abstract art but I see mostly language and asemics and these really unusual forms she makes to hold it together. Vispo - visual images - yes - but I think DK pulls off something really unuusual - not sure what it is - but not mundane.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on March 24, 2012 at 3:22am

Many tastes are probably acquired in one or a variety of ways, but vispo has been wonderfully easy to appreciate and take off from thanks to this project and all the input of those knowledgeable about it. I have been a big fan of Diane's work, including on this project, since joining IUOMA, and can see appreciation of both Chirot and Jernigan in these particular pages of Diane's. It's especially great that she drew our attention to Jernigan, I think--someone I might never have encountered otherwise. It's beautiful and thought-provoking work, Diane--someday maybe we'll end up in the same volume of a collaborative project! But even if not, you know how much I love what you do and send, and that I and countless others value highly what you create and your pioneering spirit.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 24, 2012 at 2:44am

I know vispo can be an acquired taste sort of thing, and it's hard to know where so many different people are coming from, but, for me, Diane really, really pulled it off with this chapter.

 

For instance, Chirot is SO influential, but who do you find that is actually working in the same terrain? Diane is doing that and it's like taking on Kafka or something - you are going to end up looking like a joke. But she's doing it; she's finding her own direction from a common ground - which, to me, with David, was decisive for the direction of vispo. So I think this is is an especially good one, ya.

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on March 23, 2012 at 9:52pm

Stunning Diane!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 23, 2012 at 8:33pm

Documentation for Diane Keys's chapter for the collab vispo book can be found here:

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/received-a-new-queen-o...

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on March 23, 2012 at 6:08pm

Welcome Sue!

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