I have finally got my .Com back! below is a link to my newest painting and book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkz-31IK9tU

17 Stages of Formalist Secrets of a Post Literate Society

 

Lockdown 21 (First days)

To stop the spread of coronavirus Covid-19, the National Government have announced a lockdown across South Africa which will begin at midnight on Thursday 26 March, and will continue for 21 days until midnight on Thursday, 16 April. Please stay at home during this time - this was the message from https://www.westerncape.gov.za/department-of-health/frequently-asked-questions/frequently-asked-questions-about-lockdown

 It's day 6. It's been calm and a time to clean and chuck and THINK! (Sort of - I'm still on the tidying part). I have 5 canvases 80cm x 80cm. Each day I am painting a layer.

Lockdown 1

Dear LORD and Maker of mankind, 

Forgive our foolish ways.

Lockdown 2

In simple trust, 
like those who heard, 

beside the Galilean Sea.

Lockdown 3

Lockdown 6

Lockdown 7

Lockdown 8

Lockdown 15/16

A word

fitly spoken

is like apples of gold

in pictures of silver

(Proverbs 25:11)

1. 

Lockdown 17

Listening

To the

S.         l.          o.         w.  

Heart

Beat     beat     beat

Of Another Day

Asemic Writing - A Proposition

I am attempting to wind up an article I began a year ago on Asemic Writing - the enormous puzzle of it all. I am looking for definitions from Asemic writers which transcend what we KNOW about this writing form to what YOU know. It is an attempt to create a collective knowledge about this creative practice and it's practitioners.  If you would like to contact me, please leave your email in the comments, or get hold of me on the mighty FACEBOOK...  Collaboration is the only way I have come to gain my understanding about topics such as this.  All definitions will be acknowledged and the article distributed by email to the participants.
Thanking you in anticipation  :-)

X-WORDS came about as a result of thinking about this writing form.

Asemic Black and White

I was asked to contribute to an exhibition. I don't know if I got the story wrong (thats a normal thing now days!) but I think it was work in black and white. All these are large worlds (spelling error originally but I think I will leave it...) ranging in size from 2.5m X 2.5m - 2.2m x .85cm, oil on board or canvas. This first one is a painting made of a collaborative work between John Bennett (USA) and myself - an unknown asemic alphabet titled ALPHABOT:

New Asemic Paintings - 2.2 meters X .85cm, oil/acrylic paint on board

detail:

detail:

Derivative of Alphabot

A series of glyphs derived from the collaboration with John Bennett (USA). A large painting, acrylic and oil on board - 2.1m x .85m.

Asemic Painting # 5 (1.5m x 1.7m) (2017)

Inspired by David Stone's Citadel Series of poems. 

Langauge/Asemic Painting # 4 (1.5m X 1.7m)

"I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it"

Oil Painting 1m X 80cm

Asemic Shadowland Series of Language Paintings

Asemics within a language painting

Asemic Animals

Asemic Writing - Book - An Encyclopedia of Everything

Asemic Writing

Edition of two - and then two more handmade books  made from a painting  (the - I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it series).

Included text is the first part of an article to be published  on asemic writing on issuu.  When one looks up the term ‘asemic writing’, there are very few variations in definition.  It is generally perceived to be wordless writing, with open, or no semantic content.  

Since making art from asemic writing, I have always referred to it as writing in the shadowlands - that is, a writing form between existing between words and language structures.  It LOOKS like writing, but it is not writing - if one perceives writing to be script intended to communicate.   Through school we are all taught to write  a uniform way, but strangely, this drawing form has a life of its own.   It’s not long before each student has his or her own interpretation of the alphabet.  And so I go on… Open  debate also questions whether or not asemic writing is a branch of visual poetry.