What kind of temporal-spatio-rhetoric does a polaroid afford? How does the slow afterlife of exposure agitate against the so-called instantaneousness of the film? Although digital photography … [Read more...]
Higher Education: 11 collages by Cory Peeke
I’m a collage maker for much the same reason I’m a curator – I love images. This affection has led me to collect remnant imagery; the largely ignored and seemingly inconsequential bits of ephemera … [Read more...]
borders
"borders" is one of a series of visual poems gathered together under a working title of [sic]. Additional pieces can be found online at Coldfront and at h&. … [Read more...]
Invisible stories
Nobody knows the stories in the future. Only the first letters of the words forming part of phrases are what we can put on the lines. Well, let's look forward to what kind of stories will start … [Read more...]
Eleven Collages by Gary Cummiskey
Alec Clayton: Abstract Paintings from the Retrospective
Alec Clayton will have a retrospective exhibition at the gallery at Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA, from June 28-August 10, 2017, representing 44 years of painting both abstract and figurative … [Read more...]
monologue: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
The parade of the seasons is displayed on a monochrome screen. Transparent light, surface of the water, and white roses in a pot are rippling through the glass door. The seasons each recite … [Read more...]
Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky: A Collage Mail Art Correspondence
Poets Steve Dalachinsky (NY) and Todd Swindell (CA) have an ongoing postcard/collage correspondence spanning 3,000 miles and several years. Todd says: "Mail Art's rewards come not only from the … [Read more...]
A Third Scroll of Malachite: A Painting by Joost de Jonge and Poem by Norman Dubie
A Third Scroll of Malachite —circa 800 AD The magus as a small boy in Egypt in his faded linens thought that the torchlight reflected in the harbor was a simple exchange of sleeping gulls over … [Read more...]
Motiv Eternal: Paintings by Neco Beth
The motif of my paintings buoys me up as a person. My thoughts, in part pure expressionist, Are soaked in a language that is purely stone-age, For its signs, symbols, its fauna, its surfaces. I … [Read more...]
Nothing (but)
It is a rainy day, there's no one in the forest. My right retina as a lens of camera shoots this scene. Left retina memorises this time. I remember that Roland Barthes called it "the punctum", … [Read more...]
Blue Heart Jazz: Paintings by Rachel Davis and Poems by Sam Silva
MIDNIGHT CALLS A POEM Midnight calls a poem for empty prayers or empty praise and now I am alone in the shell of the dark after that bored terror of the days ...and soon I will be a bird, … [Read more...]
Shelter from the Storm: Photographs by James Williams Jr.
'Twas in another lifetime one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud... —Bob Dylan, "Shelter from the Storm" "Shelter from the Storm" is a series that … [Read more...]
cuba shoreline
The "cuba shoreline" project reflects art found in nature and nurtured through manipulation using digital and traditional tools. The layering provides a visual distancing and through it new … [Read more...]
Terre: visual poetry
When I'm sitting on the stairs of my apartment, I find some glittering bright flying objects in the night sky. These are not stars, it's clear. "L'Étranger" may be looking at me from outer space. I … [Read more...]
The Way Home II – Assemblages by Michael Wilson
By isolating and simplifying objects and their environments, an elemental nature can be revealed that exists in all things, real and imagined. This is the thread connect us all. Through the … [Read more...]
Altered Facades by Tony Rickaby
In these photographs of street signs in and around London, I have digitally replaced the existing directions with my own observations, thoughts and memories. I aim to transform these utilitarian, … [Read more...]
Icarus: Paintings by Joost de Jonge
daredevil it felt as if he was made out of gold his head rested upon his shoulders weightless, his father called for him but Icarus seemed hypnotised lost in a curve of endless blue the … [Read more...]
13 Collages by Rhed Fawell
I think I’m a collagist simply because I love images. I'm a magpie for ephemera, searching out and collecting interesting visual material. The poetic quality of vintage material has a particular draw … [Read more...]
The Enfolded: Collage Paintings by Ginnie Gardiner
My working method since the mid-1990s has been to create equivalent color palettes from my collage and montage studies for translation into the medium of oil paint. In all of my paintings, I have … [Read more...]