Asemic writing by Carien van Hest (Zutphen, Netherlands)
I am very pleased to welcome Carien van Hest of the Netherlands to the Asemic Front project.
She has recently joined the Asemic Writing for Mail Artists group at IUOMA-Ning where she is sharing pages from an asemic journal she has begun keeping. This post presents the pages to the larger AF2 audience. The asemic writing group is an ideal place for this kind of experimentation.
Surely many asemic writers & artists keep journals of their work, but I cannot claim to have seen many excerpts online or in print. Perhaps asemic journals are an overlooked genre?
Carien van Hest is developing her asemic style & these pages document an ongoing process & evolution. The concept of organic, process-oriented asemics is intriguing & evident in Carien's work. I hope she continues to keep the journal & share these exciting entries with us.
Once, as an aside, I heard the poet & critic Hayden Carruth lament, "All those journals we [poets] keep - what happens to them? We scribble & scribble inspirations but most often they are lost. Where do they go?" I've always thought that was an interesting point. We are fascinated by glimpses into the originally private journals of writers & artists when they are available. Certainly asemic journals hold a similar allure. I hope AF2 can help preserve them.
- De Villo Sloan
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