De Villo Sloan (New York) and Jayne B. Lyons (Minnesota) collab: Found this on my camera roll from November - another piece using the DVS foundation. Used my iPad. De Villo documented other pieces on Asemic Front: https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2018/11/asemic-front-collab-by-ja....
Here is a photo collage of various tiles from our kitchen backsplash. The tile installer made random patterns. The glassy brown tiles stick out for me, and call to mind a secret code. Asemic qualities?? If eco-asemics relate to asemics in nature, what term would one use for this?
29.05.19 Dare Ms. Jayne Barket Lyons, If you are gonna push the rest of us into new levels of seeing & viewing the world it seems a bit much to expect De Villo Sloan to come up with the necessary terminology---although (on second thought) he does seem to be the only logical & concerned Professor in Asemics 101. Thanx for sharing. Richard Canard
Fantastic collabs at Asemic Front 2 by Rosaire Appel (New York City, USA) & group founder and former IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (South Africa). Great stuff!
Jason, I love these! I'm embarking on a series called Mysterious Marks, for which these would be great candidates. I thought of making a new group for that but these adorn the Asemic board nicely.
Great stuff, Jason Motsch. I received m-a from you as well. Thanks!
welcome iWunder. If people are in this group, they are likely interested in snail mailing asemics. I would just suggest you message them first to make sure they are still active. Then just jump in.
Thx Jan Hodgman for being such a supportive groupmember.
Richard, Jayne recently visited Picasso Gaglione and Darling Darlene in Tennessee! That's almost as historic as your visit from Diane Keys and Lucy Pear. Or the storage shed adventure. I'm keeping a close eye on Dare Ms. Jayne Lions.
Jayne, why don't you share pics on the humble Yoma Platform of you and Dr. Dada? (She put them on fb)
Anyway, I do have several as yet unposted colabs with Jayne. So I'll share them soon.
Wonderful package of mail art from Tic Tac Patrizia (Starnberg, Germany) that an includes an artists' book of vispo Tic Tac made with Serse Luigetti (Perugia, Italy). Perfect material for Asemic Front 2:
Hello Asemics Friends, I have an Asemics Add & Pass that originated with De Villo Sloan last year (!!). My sincere apologies, De Villo, for hanging on to it so long. I am truly sorry. :-( Would someone here like to add to it? Please let me know. It's ready to mail. All I need is a name and address. Thank you!
WOW--DIDN'T KNOW THIS WD BE SO GREATLY MAGNIFIED--HOW DOW ONE POST IMAGES HERE? I'VE ASKED BEFORE BUT NO ANSWERS FORTHCOMING--AS I HAVE LOT OF FPIECE I'D LIKE TO SEND FOR asemic front 2--ONWO/ARDS!--DAVID BC
SPLENDORS OF A DUST MOTE FLOATING IN LLATE AFTERNOON HUMID NEAR BREATHLESS AIR . . . OR OF SIDEWALK CRACKS OPENING INTO ABYSSES OF VOLCANIC ENERGIES--THE EYE ECHOES--
David-Baptiste Chirot -- it appears you have added photos below, so I'm not sure why you are asking how to do it. Just start a comment, like you have before, click on the "Image" icon in the upper left of the comment box, and download the photo from your computer. Hope this helps.
Mark and Moan Lisa hold the record for leaving, returning and sometimes being kicked out of the group.
No one is even remotely close in second place except possibly Cheryl Penn who started the group, got kicked out then left IOU-MA altogether but somehow remains a non-particpating group member.
As you can see we are all close friends with deep respect for each other.
The works posted in Photos by mail art veteran Jim Leftwich (decomposition + trashpo pieces) in Nov 2008 are really a wonder to behold, and asemically compelling. I'd never seen them before! Tonight they're on pages 6189-6190, but the numbers move, of course.
Argument is inevitable; life would be bland and unimaginable without its many forms, right? It tends to be better if the instigator doesn't pretend to be disingenuous or pretend to be uninterested in starting an argument, but who knows.
NBS, the newer definitions of asemic writing on the net generally give Jim Leftwich and Tim Gaze credit for coining the term "asemic" in the 1990s. Obviously people have been doing asemic writing much longer, but no one had explored, explained, defined the practice.
Jim is currently opposed to the use of the term asemic and is trying to replace it with "pansemic." But the cat is kind of out of the bag at this point. People get really bent out of shape on this subject. Pete Spence's attack on Kerri Pullo were inexcusable imho
It's amazing I never saw the term "pansemic" before. Google just now listed tons of links to follow, so this week's reading is laid out for me. I too think Leftwich is brilliant and remember his being credited by you and DK for inventing trashpo. Thanks for all the info, DVS.
An amazing piece of asemic calligraphy - visual poetry by Kerri Pullo (Arizona, USA) that I posted as part of Asemic Front. Imho this is a great example of asemic writing. Many thanks to Kerri.
Thanks old friend and group member Jason Motsch! Thanks for posting and I need to catch up on some correspondence with you! We'll be in touch.
Welcome res! Please feel free to post anything you'd like here, of course. I do use material from this group for the Asemic Front call. Great that you are here!
Jan Hodgman
May 26, 2019
Jayne Barket Lyons
De Villo Sloan (New York) and Jayne B. Lyons (Minnesota) collab: Found this on my camera roll from November - another piece using the DVS foundation. Used my iPad. De Villo documented other pieces on Asemic Front: https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2018/11/asemic-front-collab-by-ja....
May 27, 2019
Jayne Barket Lyons
Here is a photo collage of various tiles from our kitchen backsplash. The tile installer made random patterns. The glassy brown tiles stick out for me, and call to mind a secret code. Asemic qualities?? If eco-asemics relate to asemics in nature, what term would one use for this?
May 29, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Thanks Jayne. Perfect. You have another example of what Richard calls "readymade" and I call "found" asemics.
They are things you stumble upon in everyday life that suggest language and text but you cannot read them in the way you are reading my comments here.
Asemic writing via calligraphy is an entirely different process to achieve the same end.
Maybe these humanmade accidents are industrial asemics - we don't have a formal name.
May 29, 2019
Richard Canard
29.05.19 Dare Ms. Jayne Barket Lyons, If you are gonna push the rest of us into new levels of seeing & viewing the world it seems a bit much to expect De Villo Sloan to come up with the necessary terminology---although (on second thought) he does seem to be the only logical & concerned Professor in Asemics 101. Thanx for sharing. Richard Canard
May 29, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Fantastic collabs at Asemic Front 2 by Rosaire Appel (New York City, USA) & group founder and former IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (South Africa). Great stuff!
https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2019/05/asemic-visual-poetry-coll...
May 30, 2019
iWunder
I just logged back in after a significant hiatus. Is anyone exchanging asemic pieces? How do I get involved to create/send/receive?
Jun 3, 2019
Jason C. Motsch
Jun 6, 2019
Jason C. Motsch
Jun 6, 2019
Jason C. Motsch
Jun 6, 2019
Jan Hodgman
Jason, I love these! I'm embarking on a series called Mysterious Marks, for which these would be great candidates. I thought of making a new group for that but these adorn the Asemic board nicely.
Jun 6, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
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Jun 6, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Thanks David B-C!
Great stuff, Jason Motsch. I received m-a from you as well. Thanks!
welcome iWunder. If people are in this group, they are likely interested in snail mailing asemics. I would just suggest you message them first to make sure they are still active. Then just jump in.
Thx Jan Hodgman for being such a supportive groupmember.
Jun 6, 2019
Jason C. Motsch
Thanks Devillo and Jan! I'm feeling more inspired lately. A late spring thaw, so to speak.
Jun 7, 2019
Jan Hodgman
Yes to the "Void", David-Baptiste. Unfindability.
Jun 7, 2019
De Villo Sloan
New Asemic Front 2 collabs between Jayne B. Lyons (Minnesota, USA) & me via snail mail.
http://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2019/06/asemic-concrete-poetry-col...
Jun 12, 2019
Jayne Barket Lyons
Jun 18, 2019
Richard Canard
Toot away!!!....i don't want to miss anything.
Jun 18, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Richard, Jayne recently visited Picasso Gaglione and Darling Darlene in Tennessee! That's almost as historic as your visit from Diane Keys and Lucy Pear. Or the storage shed adventure. I'm keeping a close eye on Dare Ms. Jayne Lions.
Jayne, why don't you share pics on the humble Yoma Platform of you and Dr. Dada? (She put them on fb)
Anyway, I do have several as yet unposted colabs with Jayne. So I'll share them soon.
Jun 19, 2019
Jayne Barket Lyons
Okay...will do, DVS! Stay tuned, Mister Richard C!
Jun 19, 2019
De Villo Sloan
By popular demand, here are the last two (snail mail) collaborations by the great Jayne B. Lyons & me for Asemic Front 2.
http://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2019/06/2-x-jayne-b-lyons-de-villo...
All joking aside, Jayne did a great salvage job on two less-than-stellar starters.
Jun 22, 2019
Jayne Barket Lyons
It was my pleasure to collab with the fab DVS!
Jun 22, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Wonderful package of mail art from Tic Tac Patrizia (Starnberg, Germany) that an includes an artists' book of vispo Tic Tac made with Serse Luigetti (Perugia, Italy). Perfect material for Asemic Front 2:
http://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2019/06/collab-book-by-tictac-patr...
FAB stuff!
Jun 27, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Received a FAB artist's book for Asemic Front 2 from Jay Snodgrass (Florida, USA). Documented on the blog:
http://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-case-for-gothic-asemic-a...
Jul 1, 2019
Terry Owenby
Hello Asemics Friends, I have an Asemics Add & Pass that originated with De Villo Sloan last year (!!). My sincere apologies, De Villo, for hanging on to it so long. I am truly sorry. :-( Would someone here like to add to it? Please let me know. It's ready to mail. All I need is a name and address. Thank you!
Jul 3, 2019
Jayne Barket Lyons
Terry...howdy! I’ll take it! You may have my address, but here it it anyway:
Jayne B. Lyons
THE LYONS’ DEN
P.O. Box 1043
Lakeville MN 55044
Thanks!
Jul 3, 2019
De Villo Sloan
OMG, first Matt Stolte says he can't get into the "rhythm" of collabs with me.
Terry Owenby is giving away my starters.
Jayne salvages them like a junkyard.
Yet AF2 must go on! MY work is not done.
Jayne - IOU-MA
I shall switch to asemic a&ps
Jul 3, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
WOW--DIDN'T KNOW THIS WD BE SO GREATLY MAGNIFIED--HOW DOW ONE POST IMAGES HERE? I'VE ASKED BEFORE BUT NO ANSWERS FORTHCOMING--AS I HAVE LOT OF FPIECE I'D LIKE TO SEND FOR asemic front 2--ONWO/ARDS!--DAVID BC
Jul 3, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
ANOTHER ASCINEMATIC ASEMIA--JOURNEYS THROUGH THE INNER EYE--AS EMILY DISKINSON WROTE--"TO SHUT THE EYES IS TRAVEL"--
Jul 3, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
SPLENDORS OF A DUST MOTE FLOATING IN LLATE AFTERNOON HUMID NEAR BREATHLESS AIR . . . OR OF SIDEWALK CRACKS OPENING INTO ABYSSES OF VOLCANIC ENERGIES--THE EYE ECHOES--
Jul 3, 2019
Terry Owenby
Jayne, thank you! I will send the asemics piece to you today! Have fun!
Jul 3, 2019
Terry Owenby
David-Baptiste Chirot -- it appears you have added photos below, so I'm not sure why you are asking how to do it. Just start a comment, like you have before, click on the "Image" icon in the upper left of the comment box, and download the photo from your computer. Hope this helps.
Jul 3, 2019
De Villo Sloan
David Chirot's images look fine to me.
I understand Instagram and Facebook are having some problems with images. It could cross over to other platforms.
Jul 3, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Welcome Mark Rossmiller!
Mark and Moan Lisa hold the record for leaving, returning and sometimes being kicked out of the group.
No one is even remotely close in second place except possibly Cheryl Penn who started the group, got kicked out then left IOU-MA altogether but somehow remains a non-particpating group member.
As you can see we are all close friends with deep respect for each other.
New project looks good, Mark/
Jul 7, 2019
Bradford
So, the shunner was shunned? . . . and the wheel goes 'round and 'round . . .
Jul 7, 2019
Nancy Bell Scott
The works posted in Photos by mail art veteran Jim Leftwich (decomposition + trashpo pieces) in Nov 2008 are really a wonder to behold, and asemically compelling. I'd never seen them before! Tonight they're on pages 6189-6190, but the numbers move, of course.
Argument is inevitable; life would be bland and unimaginable without its many forms, right? It tends to be better if the instigator doesn't pretend to be disingenuous or pretend to be uninterested in starting an argument, but who knows.
For me, it's time to feed the birds in the yard.
Jul 8, 2019
De Villo Sloan
NBS, the newer definitions of asemic writing on the net generally give Jim Leftwich and Tim Gaze credit for coining the term "asemic" in the 1990s. Obviously people have been doing asemic writing much longer, but no one had explored, explained, defined the practice.
Jim is currently opposed to the use of the term asemic and is trying to replace it with "pansemic." But the cat is kind of out of the bag at this point. People get really bent out of shape on this subject. Pete Spence's attack on Kerri Pullo were inexcusable imho
We give Jim credit for inventing Trashpo in 2005.
He is some kind of genius.
Jul 8, 2019
Nancy Bell Scott
It's amazing I never saw the term "pansemic" before. Google just now listed tons of links to follow, so this week's reading is laid out for me. I too think Leftwich is brilliant and remember his being credited by you and DK for inventing trashpo. Thanks for all the info, DVS.
Jul 8, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
asemic asemniac writing by david baptiste chirot--hope they show up
as not sure of how to pos to this group--posted 3--will try again--
Jul 8, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
Jul 8, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
Jul 8, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
Jul 8, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
Jul 8, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
Jul 8, 2019
david-baptiste chirot
Jul 8, 2019
De Villo Sloan
An amazing piece of asemic calligraphy - visual poetry by Kerri Pullo (Arizona, USA) that I posted as part of Asemic Front. Imho this is a great example of asemic writing. Many thanks to Kerri.
Jul 30, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Deepest thanks to group member Robin Jeree (Texas, USA) for sending FAB material to Asemic Front!
http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/asemic-art-by-robin-je...
Aug 4, 2019
Jason C. Motsch
Aug 21, 2019
Jason C. Motsch
Aug 21, 2019
De Villo Sloan
Thanks old friend and group member Jason Motsch! Thanks for posting and I need to catch up on some correspondence with you! We'll be in touch.
Welcome res! Please feel free to post anything you'd like here, of course. I do use material from this group for the Asemic Front call. Great that you are here!
Aug 23, 2019