From the coinage, you should be able to tell I’m back on the opium pills, whith two APCs that I’m supposed to avoid to prevent kidney damage.  But I really felt terrible today, and I really really have Important Matters to attend to, basically my next SciAm blog and my moderation duty ies for ART=TEXT=ART.  What I say here about asemic art will count as work on the latter, since it will be about the visimagery/textual interface I’ll be immersed it for that. 

Below is the image from the back cover of the issue of Asemic magazine I’ve been writing about here the past two days.  I believe it’s by “Cornelis Vleeskens (remixed by Tim Gaze),” as the front page of the magazine has it, but I’m not sure because it . . . ah, I see what my problem is now:  the image is described as from “Chinese front cover.”  Veddy clever reference to fact Chinese book start backward.  (That bit of racism was intentional, you should know, ’cause I’m incorrigible.)  Okay, first thing to  notice is that the image looks very Chinese, which I’m assuming it is not.  For me, it’s a picture of a snake as an S.  A beautifully balanced textual design suggestive of A Chinese character, but also–again, for me–of the labyrinth of ancient Crete.  Very simple, very monumental–strongly framed to emphasize both.  The S as something to enter, spend time in, to be captured by . . .  I can’t think of an expressive excuse for the rectangle but like it.  No doubt my intuition is telling me it belongs, and my critical deftness can’t find any words to explain that.  Finally, something very minor, the fact that both an S and a snake hisssssssss.

All this might be pure baloney, but heed me, mine students, my manner of exploration is a most excellent model of attack on an artwork.

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Travelocity Promotion

From the coinage, you should be able to tell I’m back on the opium pills, whith two APCs that I’m supposed to avoid to prevent kidney damage.  But I really felt terrible today, and I really really have Important Matters to attend to, basically my next SciAm blog and my moderation duty ies for ART=TEXT=ART.  What I say here about asemic art will count as work on the latter, since it will be about the visimagery/textual interface I’ll be immersed it for that. 

Below is the image from the back cover of the issue of Asemic magazine I’ve been writing about here the past two days.  I believe it’s by “Cornelis Vleeskens (remixed by Tim Gaze),” as the front page of the magazine has it, but I’m not sure because it . . . ah, I see what my problem is now:  the image is described as from “Chinese front cover.”  Veddy clever reference to fact Chinese book start backward.  (That bit of racism was intentional, you should know, ’cause I’m incorrigible.)  Okay, first thing to  notice is that the image looks very Chinese, which I’m assuming it is not.  For me, it’s a picture of a snake as an S.  A beautifully balanced textual design suggestive of A Chinese character, but also–again, for me–of the labyrinth of ancient Crete.  Very simple, very monumental–strongly framed to emphasize both.  The S as something to enter, spend time in, to be captured by . . .  I can’t think of an expressive excuse for the rectangle but like it.  No doubt my intuition is telling me it belongs, and my critical deftness can’t find any words to explain that.  Finally, something very minor, the fact that both an S and a snake hisssssssss.

All this might be pure baloney, but heed me, mine students, my manner of exploration is a most excellent model of attack on an artwork.

.

 
Travelocity Promotion