jim leftwich - dyssemic photographs

 dyssemic photographs

So far I am certain only of these two postulates:
1) A-semic writers exist.
2) A-semic writing does not exist.

Let's imagine for a moment the semic as a sense of place. An ego asserts itself in a specific time and space. Meaning is the ecology in which an ego might be asserted. A-semic would describe a particular, chosen relationship to that ecology. Dys-semic would be another, similar relationship. Ditto for pan-semic. Desemantized would foreground the element of choice in yet another relationship of subjectivity to an ecology of meanings.

Asemic writers of all stripes are always at work on the possibility of their existence. Within that context, certain malleable constraints are not easily ignored. For example:
1) We can photograph the world around us as if it is a kind of abstract writing.
2) Quasi-calligraphic drawing (and/or scribbling) should make no concessions whatsoever to considerations of aesthetics.
3) Collage is raphesemic, always (semic in its seams).

jim leftwich
April 2, 2021
Roanoke VA