I’d like to introduce the extraordinary work of (he)Art - almost impossible to describe — by a new friend.
Asemic writing, as it's called, is writing that is actually not — communicating what words cannot. A type of visual poetry...
As poet Rainer Maria Rilke confesses:
“Things aren't so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered.”
You can order a copy of Sam Roxas-Chua's "Echolalia in Script" directly, from Orison Books
More and more, I find that am interested in the poetry of the ineffable.
This is how I view this evocative art writing, as an expression of the unutterable …
As poet TS Eliot puts it:
Words strain
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place
Will not stay still.
Here another sample, below, and the book cover.
Happy discoveries!
