Into The Potash, mixed media collage, 2011 Jen Besemer works with words, actions and images to expose hidden relationships (and discover new ones) between and within those media. “Misusing” text, processes and products to create camouflaged or hybrid forms,…
Category: new works
Untitled – Tim Gaze
I was delighted to receive three submissions from talented Australian writer, Tim Gaze, whose work keenly represents the grinding of visual signs with meaning. My experience with the asemic frontier began with Tim’s journal, www.asemic.net, which is an essential starting…
Two Poems – J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden
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Book Review – Tastes Of Ink by Will Conway
Tastes of Ink Will Conway Lazy Grammophone. 2010. 130pp £4.99 ISBN-13: 978-0-9552-530-5-8 The short story is the lighthouse of modern literature. The form has been used as a microscope into human relationships and world truths, as a social comment on…
Bic Runga – Mark Tronson
Airbrushed acrylic ink on vinyl record, 1 of 8 in the set. Painted for NZ music month and displayed at the Devonport Artspace in the “Sound room” exhibition in May 2010. Other musicians in the set incuded the Finn Brothers,…
Can-can – Nadeesha Godamunne
Can-can, ink on paper, 2009. Nadeesha Godamunne is a recent fashion design postgraduate, having completed her Masters in Fashion Illustration in 2010 with First Class Honours. Godamunne breaks away from certain aesthetic boundaries associated with fashion illustration in an…
Flower Child – Len Kuntz
My son is busy eating dirt, scooping up the grainy earth that looks so much like coffee grounds. I should stop him. I should call someone for advice. He’s out back by the tree swing, beside her sun-scorched garden.…
Word Weave (Tank) – Jen Besemer
‘Word Weave (Tank)‘, mixed media collage, 2011. Jen Besemer works with words, actions and images to expose hidden relationships (and discover new ones) between and within those media. “Misusing” text, processes and products to create camouflaged or hybrid forms, Jen…
Lazy Gramophone
Rem loves the avant-garde, the first rice shoots, the moving picture, the blurry still. Rem loves the impassioned people who dance even if no one else is joining in. Sam Rawling’s email fell into my message box a couple of…
Book Review: Track This – Stephen Bett
Track This: A Book Of Relationship Stephen Bett. www.stephenbett.com BlazeVOX [books]. 2010. 148pp. US$16.00. ISBN: 978-1-60964-033-0. Reviewed by Orchid Tierney. Two Responses I. The Review As Convention Track This: A Book of Relationship is the eleventh poetry collection by Canadian…