Mysterious (and asemic!) card from Theresa Williams

[Nancy Bell Scott]

This could be read so many different ways:

I love the asemic writing, and the cut-off poetic text at the top right.  And the shape of the piece itself!

Here is the inside, which you see after flipping the front page up vertically:

More asemics, and draping collage pieces that are stapled rather than glued -- love the freedom in that, Theresa.  (Tape is becoming very tempting also.)  I'm very fond of this piece, and the writing is beautiful.  Thank you very much!

[prettylily]

An intriguing message. There is no scrap too small to make magic with!  Theresa, I love the work you are sending out into the world.  Nancy, thanks for blogging this. 

[De Villo Sloan]

Theresa, by including a fragment of a poem, you reminded me that I when I approach some of the asemic work I automatically think about whether I should make it look like the shape of a poem, a block of prose, or some other writing system. I do think there are larger issues to explore with asemic syntax, beyond the creation of single symbols.

 

It's welcome to the club Nancy - back in the winter I said I was going to smash my scanner and mail the pieces to people as a performance piece. Didn't do it, but was not joking completely.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Oh my god, you mean ... you mean ... I'm not alone in the extremely heightened and more-intense-than-one-would-think-possible personal relationship I have with my scanner?  Its breaking down gave me a lousy mood tonight even though the Red Sox were winning at the time.  That explains a lot about Snooky.  Maybe my cat Cookie would take over.  Or Mrs Ramsay (named after Mrs Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse," by the way).

[De Villo Sloan]

It's very nice to be able to see the different work by people, especially as the asemic work evolves. Sort of an irony in mail-art is the close personal relationship you develop with your scanner. That's how Snooky the Amazing Mail-Art Dog got his start. We were talking about training our pets to do the scanning for us. All Snooker needed was that one break...

[Nancy Bell Scott]

You're welcome -- I enjoy it and like to blog everything someone cares enough to send me.  My scanner just conked out, though, so I'm already behind again :--)

That piece came back to me today, Theresa.  "NONSTANDARD SIZE SURCHARGE .20 DUE" and a lot of other stuff printed on a label they placed smack over your address! 

[De Villo Sloan]

Theresa, were you worried about not understanding asemic writing? This is wonderful. I love the symbols, and you clearly already are developing an asemic style. Juxtaposing it with "real" language is interesting, and I haven't seen it done a lot in Asemics 16. I admire your talent with collage too. Thanks Nancy for these great blogs!