Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

"Castling" Collaboration by John Bennett and myself 

I like these very, very much Adam and John.

Darest Adam & John, thanks so much for sharing these with the group! I spied them earlier on FB and was totally impressed. Wonderful!

And Daniel de Culla accidentally posted a greeting card in the group. That's ok but this group tries to focus on visual poetry and asemics.

There is a special SSP (Shameless Self Promotion) group at IUOMA for sharing work of this nature.

Callisemics no. 2

Wow Carien van Hest!

Fab yet elegant asemic calligraphy.

The asemic group is awash with treasures. many thx all

Carien, those Callisemics no.2 are beautiful.

Swerve

Darest Mel Blanc,

A component of asemics is exploring the "unintelligible," "illegible," "incomprehensible," and "unreadable."

Your proving to be a beacon of incomprehensibility. Thx so much for sharing and feel free to share more.

Made some asemic writing ( well, I hope this counts as asemic) and couldn’t stop ;)

I posted selections from the JMB & Adam Roussopoulos collabs at AF2, Again, thx for sharing. I'll keep documenting.

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-selection-of-recent-vis...

Dear Yvonne Kettner, really interesting work and I think could be called asemic.

Here is a question that comes up A LOT in vispo & asemics, no kidding:

Are those pieces upside down?

Should they appear at AF2 exactly as they appear below.

Again, thx

Hello De Villo Sloan, thanks for the comment.

I did the editing and upside down way extra, because you can´t read it anymore. I thought , the not reading anymore part, is a prerequisite for asemic. Is that assumption right?

Yvonne

Jeanette Geissler - Potsdam 2021 (1)

Art nouveau... This clock is designed by Victor Horta, around 1885. The irregular but fluent lines remind me of asemic writing. 

That's one of the most fabulous clocks I've ever seen.  Hard to believe it's from 1885, but Horta was a leader.

Thank you Caren, i always welcome a bit of Art Nouveau, those curves. I hope it belongs to your family!

Duncan Geere, a scientist whom I follow by emails of his blog has mentioned the number system used by Cistercian monks. Although it is VERY SEMIC it looks to me and would be to almost all of us asemic. Here's a link to some images: https://blog.duncangeere.com/cistercian-plotter-postcards/?utm_sour...

here's the 'cheat sheet'

Those monks knew what to do with their time! Very inventive. Thank you for posting this, Fike.

Welcome new asemicists! And thx to group folks for the posts.

I am very pleased to post some new collabs at Asemic Front 2 featuring two IUOMA-Ning members who have shaped mail art in the last decade: Kerri Pullo (Arizona, USA) & Michael Kelly aka DSF aka #dsfcult (Massachusetts, USA). 

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/03/collabs-by-kerri-pullo-ds...

Chronicles of the Unseen: Greetings, for DVS.

I've posted a letter at Asemic Front 2 from none other than Jim Leftwich concerning the "femmeglitch" created by Kristine Snodgrass. Some interesting "shop talk" for visual poets, asemic writers & creators of image-text.

I'm posting materials as fast as I can. Thank you to all!

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/03/jim-leftwich-reacts-to-am...

I've just finished documenting 5 b&w vispo collabs (w/asemics) by Jeff Crouch & group member John M. Bennett.

These were sent to me via email & I am hearing a lot about "Email art" these days so I think it's ok to share examples although I still prefer material art.

Thx to JMB & Jeff

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-decoder-outputs-null-...

The titles are fab:

"Chickpea pizza with remarks" by Jeff Crouch & John M. Bennett

"The variants of the word look to mean run" by Jeff Crouch & John M. Bennett

I posted the most recent installment (see scan below) of Carien van Hest's asemic journal at Asemic Front 2 (which is a mail art project).

Asemic Front 2: New asemic journal entries by Carien van Hest

I am enjoying being able to share excerpts from Carien's ongoing asemic journal as they come "hot off the press." It is very interesting to watch her progress. After all, how many artists have ever kept an asemic journal? I think others are interested too.

So Carien, no pressure but please share journal pages when you are able. And thank you!

DVS

this is partially asemic, the part in which the page is partly 'redacted'.

Of course Fike, I could read that clearly!

If all redactions were as pretty as that, Fike, the world might be a more (insert your choice of adjective) place. But my attention is on the strikethrough. I think that makes me an un-asemic searcher?

Jeanett Geissler – Asemic snapshots – Serie Berlin 1 – 2021,

 Serie Berlin 2 – 2021

Hi everybody. Here goes my first multipurpose work, I need all my energy to keep up with the Shopping Trollly Gallery. It developed a will of its own since it has gone virtual.

I'm learning graphic design and Adobe.

Martha, you need to put it in the one-size-fits-all aisle.* (*and don't forget all the exclusions).

I should Mel Annie  and I will!

Porkenigma that is great! Obviously, graphic art is your thing, that is where you shine. I wish I could think of doing something like that. I have a tendency to add a figure. I am a figurative artist and abstracts do not come easily to me.

Neither does asemic, I am afraid, but I ahve a go at everything and that is the goodness of mail art.

Asemic postcard from Jan Hodgman, saying: it says exactly what you want it to say!

Right! Thank you, Jan.

TED TRAGER's WONDERFUL WRITING !

tiny notecard by Rita J. McNamara noted today as I was responding to her mailart. Fike 25 April '21

Two pages from my asemic journal.

Received via snail mail & documented at Asemic Front 2: FAB asemic calligraphy by Francis Lamme (Amersfoort, Switzerland). Many thx! dvs

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/05/asemic-mail-art-by-franci...

Asemic Experiments - Variation 2

Asemic Experiments - Variation 1

Hello & Blesed Be¡

Ted Trager's note on a 'durian' sheet after being looked at by google's Deep Dream

I received a copy of Nicola Winborn's assembling zine Attic (issue 15). Attic is definitely attracting network interest, just not IUOMA-Ning at this time. I've documented the issue at Asemic Front 2.

Nicola (Yorkshire, UK) seeks asemics, vispo & stamp art for Attic. So some very interesting asemic writing is being shared there. Also assembling zines are a great experience imho. I think she plans future issue ;) 

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/05/asemic-front-2-review-att...

I've put some pieces by Nancy Bell Scott (Maine, USA) on Asemic Front 2. These many will recognize from the IUOMA-Ning gallery; so no premier on this. I think they reveal some new directions for NBS so want to document them elsewhere. Thx NBS for your support of Asemic Front. 

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/05/three-new-pieces-of-asemi...

From the IFC of my dermatologist's purloined booklet of stickers showing parts of the human anatomy which may be of interest to her.