The Dimmer Flame by John Bennett & Katerina Nikoltsou

This "boekie" is both beautiful and interesting. The lush blue and white background of each page satisfies the eye as it is working out the asemic text. Torn bits of French text from a tan page add a little warmth to all that cool.
The asemic writing does what I think asemics should do -- it pulls me in to decipher the words that are mostly not words at all. Script and letters are familiar and recognizable enough to just keep me at it. "Surely there is a poem or little story in here somewhere! Maybe it's in Greek!"
Page by page, I study and finally acknowledge to myself that "The Dimmer Flame" is indecipherable. Of course there is that "ha ha" on page four.
And, of course, "The Dimmer Flame" has created the little poem and story of my engagement with itself.

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