John Bennett and Matthew Stolte - When Partial Words Collide - and adding Jim SantAmour!

[cheryl penn]

John sends me - and others - the most wonderful things :-).  I have NO idea why, but they just YELL at me to add to them - I'm sure some of you feel that?  John is also a well known ZALOPIST.  ZALOPISTS inhabit ZALOP City in the World of Emphatics.

ZALOPISTS make maps to secret doors leading to ZALOP City.  Its very difficult to find you  see.  This is NOT a FAKE map - this is an AUTHENTIC JMB map.  It is NOT a shopping list.

There are various ways to say hello. Matthew knows quite a few. 

Matthews vispo  is dense, textured - almost as though the seeping ink matches the bleeding words - and visually very rich.  An ideal melding of image and language. It is  textured and rich in color, an ideal melding where language and image are combined.

Work by  John Bennett, Matthew Stotle and C.Mehrl Bennett

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Work by Jim Leftwich and John Bennett

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O K - what can I say, I'm chuffed :-) XX

From Jim SantAmour - Collage Vispo - Jim says the photograph is from a wall at a construction site in New York City - THANKS Jim - this was a surprise - a wonderful one at that :-) X

[cheryl penn]

Thanks for commenting everyone :-) - MomKat - its nice to see someone else doing a Hi-Jack :-) -  I think they should become an essential part of mail art activity :-). ZALOP certainly is proving to be a good cross-border word. Lisa - exhibit installation map - interesting! Now that you say that, it certainly does look like one - of ZALOP artifacts?  :-) X

[cheryl penn]

These ones Marie?

[De Villo Sloan]

JMB plays with melding Zalop into asemics. It's also amazing to me how Ruud's Zalop is being so smoothly integrated into everything. I think that's a real achievement of this too.

[Alicia Starr]

john bennett, asemics, fluxus, the works. Nice.

[De Villo Sloan]

Hi Cherry Blossom, isn't this work the best? I have to keep coming back to look at it. And our CP-SA is right here among the "Legends of Vispo." These folks are some of my favs. I like the Matt Stolte piece especially. He only sends me his frozen burrito boxes - that's what you get for hanging with the trash people.

[Marie Wintzer]

I love John Bennett's work. My fav here is the map with subtle vispo (or asemic? I'm always confused). Cheryl, do you think you can post a picture of the fab frocked frogs in the comments? I would love to see them again.

[De Villo Sloan]

Oh geez, Mehrl's in there too.

[De Villo Sloan]

Nice Cheryl, beautiful work by you Bennett, Stolte, and Leftwich from start to finish. I don't think vispo can get any better.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Love the collabs, here, thanks for blogging, Cheryl. Might I blog at your blog the JMBs that arrived in Greece today, too? (Will not wait for affirmative, here they are ;-)

Next of Kin or Next of Corn? Whatever, absolutely vispoetic...or does it qualify for asemic zalops?

I am spending quiet time "reading".... this and what John sent to you, Cheryl!

Here's looking at you kid...what a face, yes? Blue Mouse thinks so:

Last page of first boekie from John...there is more, but I best stop highjacking Cheryl's blog and go make one dedicated to JMB....if ning will let me?

 

[cheryl penn]

Thanks Angie and Lisa - serendipitous that all this arrived together. Do you think Johns piece IS a map??