I tried to post a comment on DVS's wordpress article regarding Ruud Janssen's vispo cut-up but couldn't get logged in. I want to say it is a beautiful piece! I am also loving these collabs with, and posted by, John Bennett. They are amazing. I especially like the Osvaldo Cibils collaboration. Thanks for sharing!
Terry, I have to approve comments at AF or it will turn into a spam fest. Maybe that's it. I'll check and see what's what. It takes me a while to make the rounds.
Thanks for your previous comments.
And I concur again, people are sharing some incredible work.
I'm glad I'm running AF - essentially a mail art call - that is documenting this work. (Obviously I am using digital and snail mail.)
Thank you for offering to check on my issue with WP posts, De Villo, but I'm quite sure the problems has to do with my passwords etc etc. I have problems on several blogs where I can't gain entry, even though I'm a member. I just need to bite the bullet and sit down one of these days to figure it all out. I too am glad you are documenting this work. I think it's important. Thanks for all your efforts.
Group members are probably familiar with the asemic piece Borderline Grafix (Texas) posted at the IUOMA. I received the original and documented it at Asemic Front. BG always responds to every artistic challenge with great work. Thx
Federico Federici (Berlin, Germany) is doing some great "asemic concrete hybrid" work. He's given me 5 new compositions for Asemic Front. Federico is not a networker like us, but of course vispo and mail art meld together in places. I certainly consider him part of AF. So meet FF if you haven't!
Front of asemic envelope from Audrey Enough, then back of envelope, and an asemic piece on vellum that could be posted in the minimal mail art group too, especially intriguing:
I found this where the snowfall abutted the carport here in snowy West Virginia usa this morning. It appears to be asemic writing. Perhaps others can decipher it if it actually contains meaning. Y'r ol' Bud, Fike
Completed a snail mail AF collab with our own Norma Soulet (Florida, USA)! The chemistry was right! I'm thrilled. Thx Norma for what you did with incomprehensible starters!
is this asemic? it was caused by pear juice chromatography of a note written in brown marking pen on a paper towel. I tried to paste this image here from my pictures but it seems waaaaay small
Fike, my view is that these chemistry experiments/accidents are a valid way of producing asemic symbols. My understanding is that anything that suggests language but cannot be read in the conventional sense is asemic.
History is showing that Jim Leftwich likely coined the term asemic in the 90s, although he's not too enchanted with it now from what I gather. In our group the term "asemic suggestive" has been used in the past. I think your pear juice is asemic but at the least it's "asemic suggestive."
A few years back I got into this asemic chemistry too stuff due to a laundry accident where I spilled bleach on paper. (I am completely serious.) I was doing some collab stuff using Kerri Pullo's "Asemic Mom" character. Here are a few scans. I think this chemistry thing is promising
Here's a blast from the past: Kerri Pullo's "Asemic Mom." We did manage to have fun.
During the days of the Asemic Wallpaper School some of the "students" were trying to develop "Asemic Gas." I think this got dangerous or whatever but there were gasmasks involved, so you see these older pieces with gasmasks sometimes.
De Villo Sloan
Ruud Janssen's vispo cut-up that was posted in our group a few days ago is re-posted at Asemic Front. Love those cut-ups! Thx Ruud
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/visual-poetry-cut-up-b...
Mar 4, 2018
Terry Owenby
I tried to post a comment on DVS's wordpress article regarding Ruud Janssen's vispo cut-up but couldn't get logged in. I want to say it is a beautiful piece! I am also loving these collabs with, and posted by, John Bennett. They are amazing. I especially like the Osvaldo Cibils collaboration. Thanks for sharing!
Mar 4, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Terry, I have to approve comments at AF or it will turn into a spam fest. Maybe that's it. I'll check and see what's what. It takes me a while to make the rounds.
Thanks for your previous comments.
And I concur again, people are sharing some incredible work.
I'm glad I'm running AF - essentially a mail art call - that is documenting this work. (Obviously I am using digital and snail mail.)
thx all
Mar 4, 2018
Nancy Bell Scott
Mar 4, 2018
Terry Owenby
Thank you for offering to check on my issue with WP posts, De Villo, but I'm quite sure the problems has to do with my passwords etc etc. I have problems on several blogs where I can't gain entry, even though I'm a member. I just need to bite the bullet and sit down one of these days to figure it all out. I too am glad you are documenting this work. I think it's important. Thanks for all your efforts.
Mar 5, 2018
Audrey Enough
so great nancy...kindof a broadway boogie woogie thing going on there!
Mar 5, 2018
Audrey Enough
Mar 6, 2018
Audrey Enough
Mar 6, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Group members are probably familiar with the asemic piece Borderline Grafix (Texas) posted at the IUOMA. I received the original and documented it at Asemic Front. BG always responds to every artistic challenge with great work. Thx
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/asemics-by-borderline-...
Mar 7, 2018
Nancy Bell Scott
Very inspiring work by BG, Audrey Enough, and JB here lately -- wow.
Mar 7, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Federico Federici (Berlin, Germany) is doing some great "asemic concrete hybrid" work. He's given me 5 new compositions for Asemic Front. Federico is not a networker like us, but of course vispo and mail art meld together in places. I certainly consider him part of AF. So meet FF if you haven't!
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/five-new-asemic-concre...
Mar 9, 2018
Nancy Bell Scott
Front of asemic envelope from Audrey Enough, then back of envelope, and an asemic piece on vellum that could be posted in the minimal mail art group too, especially intriguing:
Mar 9, 2018
John M. Bennett
Mar 9, 2018
John M. Bennett
Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett
Mar 9, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Another Nancy Bell Scott-DVS collab at AF.
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/11/digital-asemic-collab-...
Mar 12, 2018
De Villo Sloan
This new batch has the Nancy Bell Scott piece digitized in various ways. So this is an NBS-DVS collab.
Mar 12, 2018
De Villo Sloan
And welcome to old friend (of many calls) and IUOMA star and friend to many Gina Ulgen (UK)!
Would love to see some asemics, Gina. So glad you are here. DVS
Mar 12, 2018
Ficus strangulensis
Mar 12, 2018
De Villo Sloan
That's "eco-asemics," Fike. The Kulters would say, "God wrote that."
It's a cool glyph.
Mar 12, 2018
Richard Canard
"...the handwriting on the wall "...uh, snow.
Mar 12, 2018
De Villo Sloan
It takes one to snow one.
Mar 12, 2018
Gü
Thanks for the welcome DVS, I'm quite fascinated by all this and yes I will try my hand at it.
Mar 12, 2018
Audrey Enough
Mar 13, 2018
Ficus strangulensis
I'm intrigued. What is that, Audrey?
Mar 13, 2018
Audrey Enough
it's black gesso on paper. part of a little drum series i'm working on.
Mar 13, 2018
John M. Bennett
Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett
Mar 13, 2018
John M. Bennett
Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett
Mar 13, 2018
Norma Soulet
Everyone has been doing lovely work.
Love it all!
Mar 13, 2018
Norma Soulet
Hi De Villo,
Asemic's are heading your way tomorrow.
Mar 15, 2018
De Villo Sloan
New work by Kerri Pullo (Arizona, USA) at Asemic Front. This includes work Kerri sent Allan Bealy in Brooklyn. Thx to Allan for the pic help!
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/the-beginnings-of-a-st...
Mar 16, 2018
De Villo Sloan
"Amused to death" by Kerri Pullo
Mar 16, 2018
david-baptiste chirot
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Mar 16, 2018
david-baptiste chirot
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Mar 16, 2018
david-baptiste chirot
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Mar 16, 2018
david-baptiste chirot
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Mar 16, 2018
De Villo Sloan
I am proud to have completed a series of collabs with Mariano Filippetta (Italy) who is here with us at IUOMA. Love the abstraction!
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/vispo-asemic-collabs-b...
Mar 17, 2018
Audrey Enough
very nice!
Mar 17, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Yayoi S.W. (Washington State) and I completed two Asemic Front collabs (all via snail mail). I'm thrilled. Thanks Yayoi!
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/asemic-front-collabs-b...
Mar 21, 2018
Ruud Janssen
Mar 22, 2018
Ruud Janssen
Mar 22, 2018
Norma Soulet
Very nice Ruud!
Mar 22, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Collabs by Diane Keys (Illinois, USA) and John M. Bennett (Ohio, USA) at Asemic Front. Thx to JMB and DK for sharing! Incredible color.
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/recent-collabs-by-dian...
Mar 22, 2018
De Villo Sloan
My long-anticipated collab with out own Carolyn Cline (Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA). Thx for participating, CC. It was done via snail mail.
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/asemic-front-collab-by...
Mar 22, 2018
Nancy Bell Scott
Mar 23, 2018
Norma Soulet
Very nice Diane, Carolyn and Nancy!
Mar 23, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Completed a snail mail AF collab with our own Norma Soulet (Florida, USA)! The chemistry was right! I'm thrilled. Thx Norma for what you did with incomprehensible starters!
https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/asemic-vispo-collabs-b...
Mar 28, 2018
Norma Soulet
Hi De Villo,
It was fun collaborating with you on them.
Until next time.
Mar 28, 2018
Ficus strangulensis
is this asemic?
it was caused by pear juice chromatography of a note written in brown marking pen on a paper towel. I tried to paste this image here from my pictures but it seems waaaaay small
Mar 28, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Fike, my view is that these chemistry experiments/accidents are a valid way of producing asemic symbols. My understanding is that anything that suggests language but cannot be read in the conventional sense is asemic.
History is showing that Jim Leftwich likely coined the term asemic in the 90s, although he's not too enchanted with it now from what I gather. In our group the term "asemic suggestive" has been used in the past. I think your pear juice is asemic but at the least it's "asemic suggestive."
A few years back I got into this asemic chemistry too stuff due to a laundry accident where I spilled bleach on paper. (I am completely serious.) I was doing some collab stuff using Kerri Pullo's "Asemic Mom" character. Here are a few scans. I think this chemistry thing is promising
Yer Ol' Bud DVS
Mar 29, 2018
De Villo Sloan
Here's a blast from the past: Kerri Pullo's "Asemic Mom." We did manage to have fun.
During the days of the Asemic Wallpaper School some of the "students" were trying to develop "Asemic Gas." I think this got dangerous or whatever but there were gasmasks involved, so you see these older pieces with gasmasks sometimes.
Mar 29, 2018