A Blog Post for Karen Champlin - Fraternization

[cheryl penn]

Mail Art Received last week of February 2011.

What an excellent way to end the last week of February - an asemic tablet from Karen :-) the fraternization of letters and symbols and asemic writing to create a palimpsest of complexity.

Thank you Karen - you now have your own red box with white spots :-)

 

Mail art received second week January 2011

Red is the stuff of life and death, war and love. Red is the smell of deep roses and sun ripened tomatoes. Red is fear and anger. Red is passion.  It is not passive. It can never be. Karen knows this. I know this.

 

This is what red is for Karen.

I too NEED red.

Thank you Karen - a great contribution to the project.

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After a long wait and a few mishaps hey Karin :-) I am the very fortunate recipient of three of Karin's works relating to her new Asemic Project 2010.

I would suggest that you reference De Villo Sloan’s blog on Karin’s work – he wrote this which I find particularly interesting:   “If asemics denote "meaningless relationships" in the conventional sense of understanding language, I
wonder if asemic writers at some point find themselves, even unwittingly,
creating symbols and syntax that amount to a personal language. David-Baptiste
Chirot calls some of his visual and asemic poetry "Chirotglyphs,"
recognizing they do express meanings beyond a simple increased awareness of
language”.

 

Is a new language of asemics pasted over the mouth to denote an end of meaningful spoken language? Speak – ing that which we know not what?  We know it accesses non-verbal,
maybe.  Maybe that’s  going to change.

 

Assemblage: a term coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953. He used this term to describe “a type of work made from fragments of natural or preformed materials” .  Asemics uses
fragments, preformed unconscious, unconventional materials.  Language assemblage.

 

 

And Karin knows.

Thank you Karin - great work, thought provoking - yes, you got me thinking :-)

 

 

[Karen Champlin]

Cheryl thank you for your very insightful blog.  Thank you!