Thursday, November 28, 2019

Selections from a collaborative book by Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan

 
Cover of UNO by Laura Ortiz (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
& De Villo Sloan (Auburn, New York, USA) (Oct.-Nov. 2019)
 
 

As part of our recent Asemic Front 2 collabs (October-November 2019), Laura Ortiz assembled a series of our thematically connected pieces into an artist's book. I have titled it UNO due to the frequency of the letters U-N-O in the text as well as the appearance of the word "one." I also believe "uno" represents what I perceive to be the seamless quality achieved in these compositions where our styles and thematic concerns are blended perfectly. Deepest thanks to Laura Ortiz for producing this sequence.
 
- De Villo Sloan
   
 

 
By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 
 
 
By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 
 
 
By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 
 
 
By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 
 
 
By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 
 
 
By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 
 
 
By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Back cover of UNO by Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 

 
 


Monday, November 25, 2019

Asemic & Visual Poetry Collabs by Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan (Part 1)



Asemic Front 2 collab by Laura Ortiz (Toronto, Canada) &
De Villo Sloan (Auburn, New York, USA). (November 2019)
 
 
 


By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan (detail)
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan











 
Asemic Front 2 collab by Laura Ortiz (Toronto, Canada) &
De Villo Sloan (New York, USA)
 
 
 
 

By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
   
 
 

By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
  
 

By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
  
 

By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
  
 
 
 By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan
 
 
 
 

By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan





By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan





By Laura Ortiz & De Villo Sloan

 
 
 




 
 
 
 

Friday, November 15, 2019

Collabs by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich, De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo 6-10)

 
Visual poetry collaboration by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich,
De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 6)




 
 Visual poetry collaboration by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich,
De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 7)
 


 
 Visual poetry collaboration by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich,
De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 8)




 
 Visual poetry collaboration by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich,
De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 9)




 
 Visual poetry collaboration by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich,
De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 10)




 

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Collabs by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich & De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo 1-5)


Visual poetry collaborations by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich &
De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 1)
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry collaborations by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich
& De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 2)
 
 
 
 
 
 Visual poetry collaborations by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich
& De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 3)
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry collaborations by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich
& De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 4)
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry collaborations by Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich
& De Villo Sloan (Last Trashpo - 5)
 
 
 
 
 

Monday, November 11, 2019

Two Miniature Paintings by Diane Keys


 
By Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA)
 
 
 
I was sorting through a packed box of collab materials Diane Keys sent me and came upon these two miniature paintings. I am sharing them on Asemic Front 2 because I believe they embody her unique style and talent with image-text. You will see these images appear I again in upcoming collabs, but I am going to copy them and preserve the originals.
 
- DVS
 



By Diane Keys
 
 



By Diane Keys 
 
 
 
 
 
By Diane Keys
 
 
  
 

By Diane Keys
 
  
 
 
 
 By Diane Keys
 
 
 
 
 
 
 By Diane Keys





By Diane Keys





 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Vispo Trashpo by Jim Leftwich (Part 1)




Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)
 
 
Visual poet Jim Leftwich generously mailed me several dozen pieces he created. I am using some of them for Asemic Front 2 collab material & archiving the rest. However, I find the work of great significance and am sharing a liberal selection with the broad AF2 group  via this blog (thank you as ever for your continuing interest!) before they are integrated into new compositions and/or dutifully cataloged.
 
Jim Leftwich is well-known in the visual poetry community, in the Eternal Network (mail art) and as a writer and artist of an experimental bent. I am sure he is of particular interest to the Asemic Front project audience because - along with Australian Tim Gaze - Leftwich is widely given credit for having coined the term "asemic" in the mid-1990s to describe a previously undefined genre within visual poetry thus helping spark the current global artistic mania - some even call it a movement - to produce asemic texts and art.
 
It should also be noted that Leftwich has been publically critical and outspoken about the use of the term "asemic." He has questioned the linguistic theory that has emerged associated with asemic writing as well as the validity of abstract art variants that are currently popular; instead, it is my understanding he recommends the use of the term "pansemic" as a corrective and that (asemics-)pansemics belong firmly in the realm of visual poetry.
 
Alas, the use of the term "asemic" has escaped from Pandora's Box, as they say. The term "asemic" is the signifying cat escaped from the metaphorical bag. In other words, once the asemic cat is loosed upon the world it is damned hard to bag it again. Thus, with sincere apologies to Jim Leftwich who has so good-heartedly shared with AF2, I will not rename my humble project Pansemic Front.   
 
In the international mail art network, Jim Leftwich is also known for (along with Diane Keys) launching Trashpo, a mail art genre that has inspired artists and influenced countless works, exhibits and performances for the last decade. Trashpo is a form of vispo created with found material. The pieces in this blog have more in common with Leftwich's first Trashpo compositions than his (asemic-)pansemic work. The decomposition of language, however is a trait found in asemic-pansemic pieces and Trashpo. The collabs, indeed, will likely have strong pansemic elements.
 
- DVS 
 
 
 
 

 
Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)
 
 
 
The pieces appearing in this post are relatively large, composed on conventional scan paper (8.5 X 11 inch) pages.
 
 
 
 
 

Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual poetry by Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)