Asemic Front 2 Collab by Matthew Stolte & De Villo Sloan

Asemic visual poetry collab by Matthew Stolte (Wisconsin, USA)

& De Villo Sloan (New York, USA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collab foundation by Matthew Stolte (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asemic Visual Poetry by Matthew Stolte

Asemic visual poetry by Matthew Stolte
(Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

 

 

For some time I have had a mail art package from visual poet Matthew Stolte with some fantastic material. The launch of Asemic Front 2 is the perfect occasion to at last share this treasure for maximum benefit. Matt has been an important contributor to the project, and this posting showcases his distinctive and powerful style familiar to so many. The mailing included an interesting artist's book assembled on a paper bag and presented here, reflecting the Stoltean tendency to use found material to great advantage.

 

- DVS

 

 Good Morning (brown paper bag boekie)
by Matthew Stolte

 

 

 

 

 

 Good Morning (front & back covers) by Matthew Stolte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asemic visual poetry by Matthew Stolte

 



Asemic Front Collab by Jayne Lyons & De Villo Sloan

 

Asemic visual poetry collab (version #1) by Jayne Lyons (Minnesota, USA)

& De Villo Sloan (New York, USA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asemic visual poetry collab (version #2) by Jayne Lyons (Minnesota, USA)

& De Villo Sloan (New York, USA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asemic Front 2 Exclusive: Asemic Art by Donmay Donamayoora

Asemic writing by Donmay Donamayoora (Connecticut, USA)

 

 

 

Donmay Donamayoora embraced the Eternal Network by sending this original work to Asemic Front 2 via snail mail. Now I have an original, hard copy piece for the AF archive!

 

While digital work is immediate and convenient, being able to see and touch the material work by the artist/writer adds an entirely new dimension. That's one reason why AF2 encourages everyone involved to circulate their work via snail mail and to collaborate via that medium. The Cult of the Authentic is alive and well, and it is still hard to imagine art that only exists in the digital realm without a physical counterpart, although certainly that genre is growing at a tremendous rate.

 

Donmay Donamayoora - in my estimation - is another of the great, contemporary asemic calligraphers. I have been very fortunate to publish her work on Asemic Front. Having an original piece to study is invaluable to me, and I am honored she took the time and effort to send this. Of course, Asemic Front 2 readers do not benefit as much since your point of view is still online, except for the possibility my own comments might be more insightful. But I have done several detail studies that reveal her intricate, complex and layered style to provide depth and breadth.  

 

 

- DVS 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detail study of asemics by Donmay Donamayoora

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Reverse side of work by Donmay Donamayoora

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donmay Donamayoora

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asemic Front 2 Collabs by John M. Bennett, Diane Keys & Shawn McMurtagh

Visual poetry collab by John M. Bennett (Ohio, USA),

Diane Keys (Illinois, USA), Shawn McMurtagh California, USA)

 

 

 

Asemic Front 2 is thrilled to feature collabs by vispo veterans John M. Bennett and Diane Keys. You can also see for the first time on these pages the contributions of Shawn McMurtagh, a frequent Bennett collaborator, publisher and emerging visual poet of great promise.

 

 

From what I can gather "Body Finger" is available in hard copy form from the esteemed Luna Bisonte Prods. Luna Bisonte Prods has been a primary source of ground-breaking avant and post-avant art and writing for decades. Luna Bisonte Prods is one of the leading "Outsider" and "Post-Avant" publishers in the world. A visit to Luna Bisonte Prods is always illuminating:

 

http://www.johnmbennett.net/new-luna-bisonte-prods/

 

 

The Asemic Front project has consistently stated a commitment to "material culture" without disparaging the vast potential of the digital realm. I hope you find "Body Finger" a marvel to view and contemplate via this blog. Having worked closely with the images, I am in awe of the textures, colours and subtlety. I can imagine a well-rendered print (or of course even the original) of "Body Finger" would provide even deeper, stunning revelation. So at Asemic Front 2 I always encourage the "original," the "authentic," and the "material."

 

- DVS 

 

 

 

By John M. Bennett, Diane Keys & Shawn McMurtagh

 

 

 

Below are two collabs by John M. Bennett and Shawn McMurtagh:

 

 

 

 

By John M. Bennett & Shawn McMurtagh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    By John M. Bennett & Shawn McMurtagh

 

 

 

 

 

 



New Asemic Calligraphy by Laura Ortiz

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

 

 

 

 

 

Ongoing Asemic Collab by Kerri Pullo, Mud Head & John M. Bennett

      Asemic visual poetry collab by Kerri Pullo, Mud Head

 (aka Chris Reynolds) & John M. Bennett

 

 

I have recently learned about an asemic writing collaboration still in-progress involving Kerri Pullo and Mud Head (both of Arizona, USA) and the prolific John M. Bennett (Ohio, USA).

 

Thanks to the generosity of the collaborators, I have been able to obtain a sample of this exciting work for Asemic Front 2, which - of course - you see above. This preliminary view looks very promising, and I plan to follow this project as it evolves.

 

- DVS