Thom Courcelle's Blog Posts Tagged 'Penn' (3)

On the Airy Flight of Words

Friends from South Africa have been thinking of me recently. A second mailing of South African provenance arrived of GOTIJ-standard caliber. Strikingly, the format was similar to that of another South African compatriot's piece recently received--it was an accordion piece, and it also depicted an animal, though of the more aerie variety. One really had to discover the avian fellow, however, as he splashed around in a bath of liquid alphabet characters.…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on November 27, 2011 at 8:51am — 7 Comments

Beaux Livres

The book form has featured prevalently it seems among our artwork. I’ve tried writing to a few of you about the appeal of the book form… why it attracts us so much. Most recently in the Trashpo Group, there have been several of us who have explored that medium. I’m still a little hard pressed to explain fully the draw, but I am an admitted bibliophile… something about the familiarity of books, of how knowledge is contained in them… and even in that phrase—“contained knowledge”—there is…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on September 17, 2011 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

Try to follow this THREAD of appreciation (a first blog-posting)

This is my first ever blog posting, so—please—I beg of thee, forgive me any foibles or gaffes that may reveal themselves in the prosaic ramblings that follow…

Multiple works of artifice have recently found themselves lodged in my mailbox and this post-ing is a celebration of the DIVERSITY of talent that exudes from all corners of the planet—truly!—represented by a small, but ever growing, microcosm of creatives burrowing within the electronic village called IUOMA. Though the…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on July 8, 2011 at 6:56am — 7 Comments

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