Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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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...

very nice!

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...

Very nice Ruud!

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...

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...

Very nice Diane, Carolyn and Nancy!

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...

Hi De Villo,

It was fun collaborating  with you on them.

Until next time.

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

Yer Ol' Bud DVS

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.

The chance of how paint drops down. Done in 1984 , so about 34  years ago.

28.03.18 Dare De Villo S. & Ruud J., ... no one's dribble is as important as  Jackson Pollock' s drival. ...Or is it?????? Ray Johnson liked to dribble. SinCelery, Richard C.

This work isn't the dribbeling, but the flow of ink on photographic paper. So the process took about a few minutes, and then I let in dry. It is a thick layer of acrylicpaint green and white.

Richard in the big asemic group on FB (14,000) there is definitely a trend toward asemic writing as abstract art. You even see a lot of paintings.

We've been talking about Cy Twombly forever in this group.

I'm not surprised we're seeing some abstract expressionism here.

And thx Ruud

really love those bleach works.

had been thinking about starting a stain group but looks like that's already covered here.

Wikipedia's got an article on "paper chromatography" but it looks a tad technical to me. A google image search on this same phrase turns up some cool stuff! Especially if you click on some of the buttons just below the search term window.

This chemistry/splatterpo stuff is great! But let me include the disclaimer: "Kids, don't try this at home!" You don't know what this might inspire.

Audrey Enough - if you are looking for stains in mail art, you really can't beat the Trashpo/DKult folks. Trashpo is pretty much stains.

And Diane Keys is the Queen of Stains as well as the Queen of Trashpo. She has sent me stuff - I don't know what it is. Here are a few examples:

um i think that's roachpo.  they may be attracted to the cokey cleenex.

30.O3.18 Dare DeVillo S.,  ... what's going on here? Are you encouraging mail artists to actually get back in the studio & paint again  ---like in real "art" & stuff????  Sincelery, Richard C.

Richard, I'm not advocating any one approach in particular.

I am thrilled that Osvaldo Cibils and Jason Motsch (welcome back dear friends!) have gotten us back on the asemic track with the great pieces below.

The chemical reactions and stains were making me nervous...

Asemic Front is a mail art call. But I DO take digital collabs and digital solo work. So maybe this is the Post-Mail Art Movement that Moan Lisa predicted.

Thx again Osvaldo. Great to see you Jason.

FAB piece, Audrey.

That's a *wonderful* piece. Inspirational.

Panel of a collab by Amy Irwen (Minnesota, USA) and me for Asemic Front. Thx Amy!

Completed Asemic Front collabs with Gerda Osteneck (Saskatchewan, Canada). She sent me some great material. Results are digital. Thx Gerda!

https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/asemic-front-collabs-b...

I re-posted the earlier concrete-asemic piece by Audrey Enough (Canada) at Asemic Front. Thx Audrey!

https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/asemic-visual-poem-by-...

If you'd be interested in participating in my "Studies in Material Culture" Series let me know and I will send you a starter package. You can work from the photos if you like, but I don't think they came out that well.

https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/studies-in-material-cu...

Here's the first starter

05.04.18 Dare Mister Devillo Sloan, ...I have a hard time just keeping up with whatever & all that you do, but "yes" ---I'd like to attempt in trying once again to participate in this new series of yours- "Studies of Material Culture" especially if it means that I will receive mail from DeVillo Sloan.  Sincelery, Richard Canard

I. Bunus, John M. Bennett, & Richard C.

thanks so much for the asemic front posting/writing dvs.  would happily participate in the material culture project.