Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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.

the postcard image from Alan Brignull just below beginning "Bero tarna-dar" came with his most recent mailart sending. I find it charming.

Longtime group member John M. Bennett has just released a major new book that includes his vispo & some tremendous lyric poems with vispo elements!

Deepest thanks to JMB for all his contributions to our group.

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/06/knot-fade-away-asemic-fro...

Snail mail collab by me (De Villo Sloan) & Jim Leftwich. (2015 - completed 2021). I have a bunch of JL foundations I would be pleased to send you some if you're interested in sort of an add & pass asemics.

Dare Mister De Villo Sloan,  ...Yes, please.  I would be pleased  to receive a few Jim Leftwich "foundations".   SinCelery, Richard Canard

I would like to work on one or 2 as well,thank you

Original Jim Leftwich foundations from AF2 to Artbyjac, BG, Sir Litter Richard plus other sundries. 

Deepest thanx to JL for always thinking of AF and generously sending m-a.

Can't wait to see some new collabs.

BTW - In terms of new pieces, I don't even know if you could call them :asemic." So let's not worry about genre.

dvs

Thanks for posting Nancy (NBS). "Bust Stop" (this is in the Yoma People's Gallery of Obsolete Technology & Cattle Mutations too?) is a stunner, just hitting me (totally subjective) that the work achieves a unity. It's perfection in a Classical sense (I can feel NBS blushing in her Maine tower). Vispo relies so heavily on fragmentation & I guess disruption that a piece like "Bus Stop" is an unusual but welcome experience.

I would like to work on one too please.

Nancy, this one is a minimalist you! It's so busily tranquil. 

DVS, if we're not worrying about genre, I'd love to cross some sundried  fragments to a JL foundation, please.

One's own natural fragmentation can become really exhausting every 3 or 4 or 7 years. I appreciate the thought-provoking comments, Mel Anie and DVS, thanks.

"Shadow Asemics" aka "Eco-Asemics" (DVS). This path is producing some tremendous vispo too (not mine) but people who look for asemics in the natural world (or urban landscape).

But eco-asemics are like Buddhism a lot of the time.

Some people are doing a lot with glitched asemics & vispo (glitchtxt). So I unearthed some drafts of a collab I did with Ficus Strangulensis March 1, 2018. This one was apparently not posted. So I share it now becus its time hath cometh:

Fike & DVS March 1, 2018.

That is stunning, De Villa, wow.

That looks amazing, Francis!

Asemic Experiments - Variation 5

Asemic Experiments - Variation 4

Asemic Experiments - Variation 3

Nancy Bell Scott

Mikel Untzilla

Asemic coffee

Pokeberry ink asemics