None of us can escape the habit of projecting thoughts and concepts onto reality itself— what Buddhists would call “pure perception”. But if we can access awareness of our inner, deeply ingrained … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Richard Biddle aka (bid)
Mixed-media pieces by Cynthia Yachtman
I work primarily with acrylic and latex paints, inks, papers and charcoal. My images contain many diverse layers of meaning from the universal to the specific and personal. My works are often … [Read more...]
Rhed Fawell: Collage and Embroidery
My collages explore the deconstruction and reconstruction of images. The process allows me to play conceptually with a theme or thought. By deconstructing the original reality of an image, I can begin … [Read more...]
Utterance: Paintings by Samia Soubra
Calcutta: Photographs by Buku Sarkar
After seventeen years away, I've done something most Indians of my generation don't do---return back home. When people ask me where I'm from, I always stumble. I say, I was born in Calcutta but I grew … [Read more...]
12 collages by Bill Wolak
I make collages out of all kinds of materials. Most are made out of paper engravings. Many collages are digitally generated or enhanced. To begin a piece, I select some sources—either color or black … [Read more...]
my little girls dreams she is a spider: collages by Tim Stuemke
My collage is about how disparate images create their own stories. We cannot help but connect the visual dots that only exist in our own minds. … [Read more...]
Swimming in the river of bits: The digital meditation of Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum
There is currently an exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris that I was fortunate enough to visit last week by Japanese composer and artist Ryoji Ikeda. The installation, called “Continuum” … [Read more...]
Screenpaintings by Shih Yun Yeo
The artist calls these paintings, created by a combined procedure of screen printing and painting, Screenpaintings. Silk screening technique, as it is used here, is not treating the silkscreen as a … [Read more...]
A Carving Process: Ripple by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck
I first saw Ripple on its opening night. Formally a residence in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Ripple is a sculpture created on site by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck who carved designs into the … [Read more...]
The cholla garden at Joshua Tree: paintings by William Clarkson
An appreciation of the Cholla bush representing survival in a harsh environment. … [Read more...]
The place where someone’s waiting for me: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
These collages have been made on screen prints which I printed several years ago. When I found the prints, just as if I read the old letters from the old friends, I felt a nostalgia. ― I miss you. … [Read more...]
Visual poetry from The City of Dreadful Night by Andre Bagoo
For life is but a dream whose shapes return — James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night These pieces are excerpted from Andre Bagoo's … [Read more...]
Divine Decay by Kon Markogiannis
Divine Decay is a series of photographic/mixed media constructions informed and inspired by holy texts, illuminated manuscripts, death memorials, sacred geometry, religious icons, and Renaissance … [Read more...]
Cy Twombly’s Lepanto Green
Someone has razed the house and hung its walls vandalized by a tormented resident. Standing back affronted, but scrutinizing the display nevertheless, twelve panels come into view as if roof, … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Cam Scott: Spools/Burrs (for Clark Coolidge)
Influenced by copy art and zine making, my work uses the copier or scanner as a means of drawing, often adapting, or 'quoting,' a source of conceptual significance. In this, a nostalgic practice of … [Read more...]
3 visual poems by József Bíró
Joy of Water: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
There is Tamagawa Aqueduct under the Daitabashi Station near the town where I live. The name of the place “Daitabashi” comes from "Daidarabotchi” as a giant in Japanese folklore. Daidarabotchi's huge … [Read more...]
Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce
I start with ripping apart issues of Architectural Digest and create dozens of collages very quickly that I make to capture a certain mood. From these compositions, I select the few that I’ll develop … [Read more...]