sacred

citizen (fear of the other)

the abundance of terrifying elements

note that many of the titles are coming from the titles of plays which were performed at le Grand Guignol in Paris. a place of street loafers and con artists.

le Grand Guignol

Le Laboratoire des Hallucinations

fantasmagoria

because sometimes a word is exactly what you dreamt it would be...

the constant marigold

attempts at asemic writing/poetry

asemic writing has fascinated me for some time. particularly i'm interested in the idea of focussing very closely on individual letters of various alphabets and deconstructing them in various ways. in poetry i'm always interested in anything that challenges or removes standard semantic meanings. in visual poetry treating the textual elements as illustrative, evokative in their own right corresponds with this removal from the semantic and conventional meanings of words. asemic poetry is particularly resonant with imagery, symbols, emotion. where does the deep image come from in one's pysche? Jerome Rothenberg coined the term for poetry but I've always thought it has some similarities to the Jungian archetype. as a synaesthete, colours evoke archetypical symbols and mythology for me. all this to say...here are a few attempts at asemic poetry 1) cicada 2) noise 3) anonymous (the soundtrack is Anonymous 4 On Yoolis Night and An English Ladymass, which evoke the gun metal greys and shapes i've used)

whimsy

what you see

green dreams

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." Noam Chomsky

noise

7. Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Noire
8. Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Pathétique

concert de bruits

4. Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Chemins de Fer
5. Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Tourniquets
6. Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Violette
UbuWeb Sound : History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (1937-2001)

pqrs

made while listening to
1. Messiaen - Oraison - 1937 - For Ondes Martenot
2. Cage - Imaginary Landscape - 1939 - For 2 phonographs

from Ubuweb Sound: History of Electronic Music

T4AVP 12: (Nature): oh

with the photography of Charles Earl

responding to Satu Kaikkonen's Time for a Vispo Challenge # 12: Nature

T4AVP 12: ( Nature) murmuring of innumerable bees

with photography by Charles Earl

Satu Kaikkonen's Time for a Vispo Challenges are here. Come take part.

"murmuring of innumerable bees" is my favourite onomatapeic bit of poetry. it comes from Tennyson's the Princess

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InterNaPwoWriMo IV : a pwoermd a day for NPM

a pwoermd is a one-word poem. visit Geof Huth's blog for more info.

T4AVP 11: Same Image- Alphabet Reign

T4AVP10: Asemic Vispo-after Yves Klein