just saw sad news of artist Jim Leftwich passing from a post by @differx. I am not sure if I ever met Jim in person, but have been inspired by his work many times over the years through his involvement with #Xexoxial and his work in #VisualPoetry, #asemic writing.
This is a piece entitled “Zaum Frottage” from `spidertangle _the book_` from 2002 put together by @memexikon (free pdf https://xexoxial.org/pdf/spidertangle_the_book_web.pdf)
Looking him up in more detail and finding so many interesting things. Here is a cover he did in October of 1987 for "M-Aura"
while looking through his old Twitter I see he also had an account over here he used for a while at @JIMWICh
"InfoSpace™ A Conceptual Model for Interacting with Information in a Three-Dimensional Virtual Environment ©1988 - 1993 James Leftwich / Orbit Interaction"
OF COURSE THE ASEMIC IS ABSURD
"If I am writing about the word "asemic", I am thinking about patience and persistence. I am thinking about failure as a source of energy, as that which keeps an absurdist idea of enlightenment alive and almost thriving. Standing in the absurd center of the #asemic universe, we are surrounded by unexamined exits and entrances, unexplored starting-points, multiple escape-routes leading out in all directions." - jim leftwich, may 2021
https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2024/10/jim-leftwich-of-course-asemic-is-absurd.html