A Blog Post for Karen Champlin - Fraternization

[cheryl penn]

Mail Art Received last week of February 2011.

What an excellent way to end the last week of February - an asemic tablet from Karen :-) the fraternization of letters and symbols and asemic writing to create a palimpsest of complexity.

Thank you Karen - you now have your own red box with white spots :-)

 

Mail art received second week January 2011

Red is the stuff of life and death, war and love. Red is the smell of deep roses and sun ripened tomatoes. Red is fear and anger. Red is passion.  It is not passive. It can never be. Karen knows this. I know this.

 

This is what red is for Karen.

I too NEED red.

Thank you Karen - a great contribution to the project.

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After a long wait and a few mishaps hey Karin :-) I am the very fortunate recipient of three of Karin's works relating to her new Asemic Project 2010.

I would suggest that you reference De Villo Sloan’s blog on Karin’s work – he wrote this which I find particularly interesting:   “If asemics denote "meaningless relationships" in the conventional sense of understanding language, I
wonder if asemic writers at some point find themselves, even unwittingly,
creating symbols and syntax that amount to a personal language. David-Baptiste
Chirot calls some of his visual and asemic poetry "Chirotglyphs,"
recognizing they do express meanings beyond a simple increased awareness of
language”.

 

Is a new language of asemics pasted over the mouth to denote an end of meaningful spoken language? Speak – ing that which we know not what?  We know it accesses non-verbal,
maybe.  Maybe that’s  going to change.

 

Assemblage: a term coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953. He used this term to describe “a type of work made from fragments of natural or preformed materials” .  Asemics uses
fragments, preformed unconscious, unconventional materials.  Language assemblage.

 

 

And Karin knows.

Thank you Karin - great work, thought provoking - yes, you got me thinking :-)

 

 

[De Villo Sloan]

Austin, it's been stuck in my mind because I've been thinking about those orchestra crescendos. "Found my way upstairs and had a smoke, and somebody spoke and I went into a dream..."

[Austin Wills James]

I'd complain about DVS getting 'A Day in the LIfe' stuck in my head, if I wasn't such a huge Beatles fan that is.

-AWJ-

[De Villo Sloan]

"I red the news today, oh boy.............now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall..."

[De Villo Sloan]

luke. i am your father

[De Villo Sloan]

I thought I red you the riot act.

[De Villo Sloan]

gb - dont think you 'read' karen champlins art. cp-sa r u red-E (ready)?

[De Villo Sloan]

For no reason I can explain, it makes me think of a French kind of "fraternity." Excruciating? Sometimes.

[Plush Possum Studio-Rose McGuinn]

Oh, this is so very beautiful. The depth of these pieces is excruciating in spots, but ever so real and true. This please me immensely, to know we have such talented people in our midst. This is causing me personally to rethink how I am to keep sending. It is a deeper process, then, than simple fun may express.

Thank you, Karen and Cheryl, for this lovely view on the workings of this dynamic duo you cal friendship.

Beautiful.

Rose

[Marie Wintzer]

I really like what Karen wrote about RED, it could a piece on its own actually.

[De Villo Sloan]

More great work by Karen Champlin. You know I'm one who likes to make interpretation part of the mail-art process, too, Cheryl. So I appreciate your commentary a great deal (trying to put aside my bias considering you quoted me.) Noting Karen put the asemics over the mouth, excellent. I never would have thought of that. And it does open a whole discussion about spoken and written language. Very compelling. Funny you should pick up on the "meaningless relationships" phrase. That's a reference to an article that appeared in The Village Voice (NYC) at the time the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets were first getting recognition - title of the article was "Meaningless Relationships" and was a bit disparaging concerning various kind of artworks that are extremely self-referential. Wonderful blog.