Amy Rodriquez
Found Asemics
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Bio:
Amy Rodriguez is an Artist and Poet living in the Ozark Mountains. Her first chapbook Light Pours In was published by Anhinga Press June 2024 as part of their Visual Poetry Series. Amy's artwork has been featured in WAAVe Global Gallery - Women Asemic Artists and Visual Poets 2021, Singing with the Nightingales- A WAAVe Global Response to the Ukraine Situation, Experiment-O, an annual pdf magazine by Amanda Earl, deLuge Journal and Glitchy Womyn: An Anthology of Women Glitching in 2022-2023. Amy has also contributed to several issues of Nicola Winborn's Attic Zine and the anthology from Anhinga Press, Rumors, Secrets 3 Lies: Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion e Choice. Her work can be viewed regularly at Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate on Facebook. |
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Artist Statement:
I first encountered asemic as an idea about 2020. I was immediately drawn to the visual aesthetic of work inviting a viewer to hover somewhere between reading and looking. It seemed very cryptic, and at the same time often very visceral. I enjoyed the breadth of artwork that falls under the umbrella of asemic. I do like that sense of a ‘broad church’ - in art, much as I do in poetry. From many asemic works I gain a feeling of the path of a movement traced. Often I feel a kind of kinaesthetic empathy - my hand and arm wanting to move along with a past performance of mark making. Even if a specific meaning is not enfolded in that movement, a feeling certainly can be.
I’ve called the images that are here ‘found asemic’. They embody a strand of seeing that emerged from my landscape photography. I think the name is fairly self explanatory - photographs of found elements that resonate with a perception of script-like or character-like forms. These images are often connected with that sense of an imagined prior movement – the result, perhaps, of some uncertain and intangible flow of chaotic intent. That intuition of some dynamic, even passionate, dancing cursive, swept out through both space and time.
As always - I hope that these images bring you joy.
I first encountered asemic as an idea about 2020. I was immediately drawn to the visual aesthetic of work inviting a viewer to hover somewhere between reading and looking. It seemed very cryptic, and at the same time often very visceral. I enjoyed the breadth of artwork that falls under the umbrella of asemic. I do like that sense of a ‘broad church’ - in art, much as I do in poetry. From many asemic works I gain a feeling of the path of a movement traced. Often I feel a kind of kinaesthetic empathy - my hand and arm wanting to move along with a past performance of mark making. Even if a specific meaning is not enfolded in that movement, a feeling certainly can be.
I’ve called the images that are here ‘found asemic’. They embody a strand of seeing that emerged from my landscape photography. I think the name is fairly self explanatory - photographs of found elements that resonate with a perception of script-like or character-like forms. These images are often connected with that sense of an imagined prior movement – the result, perhaps, of some uncertain and intangible flow of chaotic intent. That intuition of some dynamic, even passionate, dancing cursive, swept out through both space and time.
As always - I hope that these images bring you joy.