Nico Vassilakis
Nico Vassilakis is a visual poet who engages with letters and typeface structures as his primary material. His visual poems—jazzy anatomies of the alphabet, landscapes of typographic sprawl—playfully muddy the distinction between line and sign. Vassilakis is also active as a curator and anthologist of visual poetry. He edited a regular feature on visual poetry for Coldfront Magazine and, along with Crag Hill, edited THE LAST VISPO: A Visual Poetry Anthology 1998–2008. Vassilakis defines contemporary visual poetry as “the predilection for fidgeters of text to have letters be unmoored from their word source, so as to consider even the singular letter or portions of that letter as the material of expression." His website is staringpoetics.weebly.com.
Denis Mair says
nico,
Once again, your recognizable visual themes are emerging in new quirky ways. A taxonomist of cellular autonoma would be flummoxed by the improvisations.
Denis
Jesse Glass says
Nico, I missed that American sit-com you mentioned in another posting. Jess
Bill DiMichele says
nico
love the density love the intense hues. some people think a computer program is going to make the work for them. for you, i can see you’ve got a powerful grip on the gears, and the computer belongs to you instead of the other way around. the interaction of layers is awesome. keep it up (as if i needed to tell you that!).
bill dimichele