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Vispro (Visual Prose)

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Link to the article on academia: https://www.academia.edu/65621894/VISPRO_A_New_Way_Forward Abstract:     All borders are open, the textual shadowlands are inhabited by any and every word and image.  There are no structures, no rules, no places to gain a firm foothold.  The author is inconsequential, artwork/writing is open to any and every interpretation, after all –                   it  appears  only ‘The Great I’ matters.  And it’s got boring.  Few will stand  by  what they stand  for  alongside any sort of definition. Sadly, even the word ‘definition’ has become outmoded, outdated and apparently ‘limiting’. To produce and produce in any and every situation with any and every means possible, without any foundation and very little purpose – except to produce – well, that’s just the way it goes – it seems.    Not  to ...

Blackbird (David Stone Publication)

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                    "David Stone has published Blackbird for close to a quarter of a century. He believes in a multicoloured palette and enlarging one's vision of the world. The submitted work reflects those preferences. Blackbird is international in scope where one can find poetry, fiction, drawings, photography, collage, and an occasional manifesto. In a world where so many publications look and read the same, it's refreshing that Blackbird has not fallen to homogenisation. It continues to take risks, offer surprises, and as a result contributes to enhancing the readers awareness of multiple art forms".      Contributions are as different as countries represented, but one characteristic ties everything together - this is GOOD STUFF - so many different approaches tied together in a beautiful surprise. Published by Cyberwit, a generous and professional publishing company both David Stone and I have dealt with bef...

David Chirot, AsemicFront and I

I have been missing David lately - his wild emails always detailing so intricately a life far away from my own. This is the last email I received from his personally: DEAR CHERYL--          YOUR NEW WORK I SEE ON VISPRO AND ESLEWHERES IS   FABULOUS--YOUR USE OF COLOR ALWS BLOWS MY MIND--     IT IS SO GORGEOUS!--I LOVE ALSO THE DUALITY YOU PRESENT OF THE WORKS HAVING, AT ONCE,         SIMULTANEOUSLY--THE SENSE OF THEIR BEING BOTH       OPAQUE AND OF INFINITE--DEEP--DEPTHS . . .       HERE SPONTANEOULY A POEM GREETS THE MORNING AS THE SKY SLOWLY LIGHTENS--THE GREY TINTS AND DIMNESS AMONG THE BRILLIANTLY GREEN TREES . . . . LOOKING OUYSIDE WINDOW OF THIS ROOM IN MY MAGIC APT.--            WITH AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE             FACING THE DAY ...

Life and Death - for Henry - 2M x 2M on wooden frame - it's HEAVY!!!! - just like the matters it addresses.

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  Pages from accompanying unique book. Aleatory game of 0/s and X's titled Life and Death. Death won by 1.  Three layers later and everything is obliterated - I needed to be true to my process but also stay within the confines of the clients brief... this meant I had no choice but to find a clean tabula rosa.

Visual Prose (vispro) article - and here I rest my case.

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https://www.academia.edu/65621894/VISPRO_A_New_Way_Forward

It's good to be able to revisit old memory sticks.

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                                            Old cover for David Stone's Publication  Blackbird   The Book of Ether  Marie Wintzer (Japan)/Cheryl Penn  Bhubezi Tribe Mythology - The Bowl from where all Asemics flow. Clay vispo books

My .Com was hacked/error-ed

 So I had a wonderful site, but I no longer have it - sadly - it was nice being a .Com! http://www.cherylpenn.com/site/