An Exploration : Art || Asemic || Words
Van Vliet Gallery
Van Vliet Gallery
The Side Room Exhibit:
Botanical Asemics
Ink on Watercolor paper
by Karla Van Vliet
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Artists Statement:: After the long winters in Vermont the new life which rises in color from the garden is a solace. This collection of botanical images was inspired by the beauty of my many gardens. None are meant to be a specific flower but more so the spirit of flower. Each piece also has lines of asemic writing. Asemic writing is a developing art movement that depicts writing-like markings on paper or canvas. It embraces the mystery between silence, what is yet to be spoken, and meaning, the semantics of known language. What is represented are the feelings or ideas that the word, or markings, suggests, to the artist, and to the viewer. |
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These works engage the viewer in a unique way, beyond more traditional abstract work, because the marks seem like one should be able to read them and that the marks are meant to be read. This awakens the part of the mind that engages with language and in lieu of being given words with known meaning the viewer creates their own translation or meaning of what is written, entering, in a sense, a conversation with the piece.
Combined with the botanical images one might conceive the song of the imagined flower, the flower’s message to the viewer. Or perhaps, the call of nearby birds, the sound of a close brook, or possibly a line of poetry. I invite you to sit with these images and discover their meanings to you.
Combined with the botanical images one might conceive the song of the imagined flower, the flower’s message to the viewer. Or perhaps, the call of nearby birds, the sound of a close brook, or possibly a line of poetry. I invite you to sit with these images and discover their meanings to you.
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If you are interested in purchasing please contact Karla at vanvliet@vanvlietarts.com. Available paintings cost $345 plus mailing cost. You can purchase the show catalog for $22, click on cover image and follow links to order.
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Bio:
Karla Van Vliet’s newest books are She Speaks in Tongues (Anhinga Press,) a collection of poems and asemic writings, and Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings (Shanti Arts.) Her books From the Book of Remembrance and The River From My Mouth, collections of poetry and paintings, are published by Shanti Arts, and her poem length chapbook, Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit, is published by Folded Word. She is a Forward Prize, a three-time Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net, nominee. Her poems have appeared in Acumen, Poet Lore, The Tishman Review, Green Mountains Review, Crannog Magazine and others. |
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Van Vliet’s paintings have been featured in Women Asemic Writers, UTSANGA.IT, Still Point Art Quarterly, Stone Voices Magazine, Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, and Gate Posts with No Gate: The Leg Paint Project. She is a member of WAAVe Global (Women Asemic Artists & Visual Poets) and Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate.
She is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal, an Integrative Dreamwork analyst, and administrator of the New England Young Writers’ Conference at Bread Loaf, Middlebury College. Karla lives in Vermont, USA.
She is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal, an Integrative Dreamwork analyst, and administrator of the New England Young Writers’ Conference at Bread Loaf, Middlebury College. Karla lives in Vermont, USA.