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In your words 3 Replies

What is ascemic writing?What is visual poetry?I have a pen pal who is interested in learning about them after telling her that I read Judith women making visual poetry and it was my favorite art book of 2021.Your responses will be printed and mailed…Continue

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Started by JAC MAIL. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Feb 2.

Personal shorthand jazz writings with words. 5 Replies

Can ideas like this be included in the asemic type of development?Jazzy script in a kind of shorthand notation?Continue

Started by Bill Newbold. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Feb 7, 2022.

Spontaneous Asemics 18 Replies

I am curious how members view the phenomenon of spontaneous asemics and if they ever experience something like I did this afternoon. I was tidying my workspace and while lifting a pile of paper I detected marks of ink that got stuck to the plastic…Continue

Started by Carien van Hest. Last reply by JCW Maine May 8, 2021.

The Martha Stuart School of Asemic Wallpaper - Start Your Career Today! - Special Discount for Prisoners 164 Replies

The Martha Stuart School of Asemic WallpaperFounder:Martha StuartAdministration:Katerina Nikoltsou, Dean of AsemicsDiane Keys, Minister of Propaganda, Student AmbassadorSnooker the Amazing Mail-art Dog, Dean of MenDavid Stafford, Dean of WomenDe…Continue

Started by De Villo Sloan. Last reply by Francis Lammé Dec 9, 2020.

font creator program 2 Replies

Hi I am new here because by chance I saw your question. I have used Fontographer to create my own fonts from drawings and it is easy and free. It will work with W7, I think. You need a painting /graphic program to create tiny drawings of each…Continue

Started by Mail Art Martha. Last reply by Francis Lammé Aug 24, 2020.

Definition of Asemic Writing - Adapted from Wikipedia 12 Replies

Adapted from Wikipedia Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content.” With the nonspecificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to…Continue

Started by De Villo Sloan. Last reply by david-baptiste chirot Feb 18, 2019.

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 11, 2020 at 12:17am: Thank you for sharing, Carien van Hest.

"asemic poetry" is an area that really hasn't been explored (which I think is a good thing!). Of course I am especially interested to see asemic poems & also asemic-visual poetry hybrids.

(There is no right or wrong here! I'm not slightly suggesting that. I think we can make asemic poetry what we want.)

Here are asemic poems I did early as mail art for Carina Granlund in Finland. The scan date is June 5, 2012!

Comment by Carien van Hest on September 9, 2020 at 8:34pm: My first asemic poem. It made me feel frivolous.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2020 at 4:58pm: I've done some collabs (Asemic Front, after all, is about collabs) w/ the Princess Olivia Mooncake work shared in our group thanks to Borderline Grafix.

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2020/09/asemic-visual-poetry-coll...

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 6, 2020 at 3:00am: Thank you, De Villo Sloan.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2020 at 2:51am: I feel like Maxima Strange (Ohio, USA) has been in the group forever, but actually she is very new. And here is her first appearance on Asemic Front 2 with some gothic asemics! Many thanks. And of course folks know there is no limit to the amount of material you can submit to Asemic Front.

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2020/09/gothic-asemics-by-maxima-...

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 5, 2020 at 10:49pm: Mail Art Martha! We have fruitfully discoursed upon Trashpo as well.

Wonderful observation: The Nothingness to which Buddhists aspire is similar to the aim of the asemicist (asemic writer).

Otherwise, Dharma (I understand to be the spiritual realm) appears in Beat writing. Kerouac's "Dharma Bums" is notable. Ginsberg writes of "Dharma poetics." The jump to the asemic is easy.

Also I would note asemic writing probably in part is derived from automatic or "spirit writing" where the medium is recording messages from "the other side," which involve non-recognizable or only partially recognizable language.

Thx for deepening the discussion, MAM.

Comment by Mail Art Martha on September 5, 2020 at 8:20pm: Dharma Asemics? no sense, nonsense, all vey Zen, and you say you have no particular affinity with the Buddha, DVS.

Comment by chris wells on September 5, 2020 at 3:46pm: Thank you so much, DVS! I'm glad to be getting back into mail art & visiting IUOMA after a (too long) break.

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 5, 2020 at 2:44am: De Villo, you made me smile.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 5, 2020 at 2:04am: Oh & in my trembling, unsteady hands I hold a large envelope received from none other than Maxima Strange! Just picked it up at the PO this afternoon.

The piece is as yet unopened. What can it be?

We shall see!

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