Asemic calligraphy by Laura Ortiz (Toronto, Canada)
Asemic Front 2 is thrilled to have obtained new work by AF perennial fave Laura Ortiz, who needs no introduction in the global visual poetry and asemic communities.
These pieces focus on her asemic calligraphy. In fact, the compositions showcase Laura's skills with different calligraphic styles that are juxtaposed here to create energy, tensions and forms.
Laura Ortiz is known to go far afield in her work with images and color, but these pieces are relatively "purist" and also accentuate her ability with fluid cursive strings (as opposed to too narrowly describing them as simply linear). These pieces show why I maintain she is one of the contemporary masters of cursive asemics.
Her asemics are definitely of the expressive school (a strain of Romanticism in asemics?). I believe they communicate emotions in the same way good abstract art expresses emotions as opposed to - say - the way we reach emotional states via the "reading" of conventional lyric poetry. The work in this post contains some amazingly expressive nuances, I think. They deserve time and meditation.
- DVS
By Laura Ortiz
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