from an Asemic mural in-progress

Details 1 and 2

Wiki says: “Asemic writing is a hybrid art form that fuses text and image into a unity, and then sets it free to arbitrary subjective interpretations…The open nature of asemic works allows for meaning to occur across linguistic understanding…” I argue all works of art in every genre are performative. In this way, the reader/viewer become the participators of the work. If an observer can change an event by the sheer act of observing, art and writing can also change while it interrogates the canvas or page, while it also interrogates the viewer-now-participator, through call-and-response activating the cerebral cortex or entrails or both. Whether Asemic work is devoid of meaning or its meaning is ad infinitum, it’s for you to decide. Gertrude Stein schooled us long ago. We cannot help not make sense. The authority is not in linguists or symbols but in our participation with the live organisms

of the work. Whether it is our intention, it is in us to build, to co-create, to imagine, to make shapes that mean to connect.

Detail 1: “THEM”

Detail 2: “RETRIEVAL”