Illuminated Words
"Illuminated Words" is an extended piece of visual poetry as well as a narrative about a knight who has killed his own king and, haunted by his life, traverses the Earth while trying and failing to forgive himself. The glyphs in the pieces illustrate the story via calligraphic text displaying meaning absent the intercession of words. These glyphs are bolstered by titles describing the knight's thoughts and actions.
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Geof Huth
Geof Huth is an artist and poet of mixed means.
Introspection
A series of geometric figures composed of smaller letter forms emerging in patterns and shapes proposing a new visual grammar.
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Rémi Forte
Rémi Forte is a French designer and poet. He graduated from the National Institute for Typographic Research and Lyon School of Fine Arts. His work is at the intersection of contemporary poetic practices and typography.
He is developing a research-creation PhD, “Poetic Programme, Typographic System,” as part of the TransCrit research unit (University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis). This work explores the tensions between poetic writing, typographic composition, and type design.
Since 2019, he’s been the manager of the type foundry 205TF and taught typography at the Strate School of Design in Lyon.
Occult Noir
These images are details from a photomontage series called "Occult Noir," which riffs upon, and, I hope, troubles various film noir conventions. My collage and photomontage works are made up mostly of images I recall from movies, television, public service films, film strips, and print advertising from my childhood. I appropriate media from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in particular, and source it from such places as the Good Will, antique stores, and the Internet Archive. The process is low-tech. Photographs are cut and pasted, marked on, painted on, re-photographed, manipulated digitally, cut and pasted, marked on, painted on, re-photographed until I have something that surprises me and I hope will be of interest to a viewer.
Production Note: "Occult Noir" is a double reel; subscribers will receive 2 reels containing the entirety of the work.
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Eric Pankey
Eric Pankey is a visual artist and the author of many collections of poetry and a collection of essays. His visual art has appeared in a number of group shows around the country since 2008 and his writing has been supported by two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason.
A Series of Notes to Self (AM to PM)
I wanted to create a set of images/text that serve ad motivation for me as a Black woman getting through each day. From channeling mental strength and agility, to being rooted in community, to maintaining perspective, the sentiments expressed here work to ground and lift me at the same time.
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Njaimeh Njie
Njaimeh Njie is a multimedia artist. Her photography, filmmaking, and installations explore contemporary Black life with a focus on how the past shapes the present. Njie’s work has been featured in outlets including CityLab and Belt Magazine, exhibited in spaces including the Carnegie Museum of Art and The Mattress Factory, and she has presented at venues including TEDxPittsburghWomen and Harvard University. Among several awards and grants, Njie was named the 2019 Visual Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh City Paper, and the 2018 Emerging Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Njie earned her B.A. in Film and Media Studies in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis.
Tomb of the Ecstatic Poet
Straddling the line between feuilleton and footnote, “The Tomb of the Ecstatic Poet” is a historical narrative carved in miniature, an exercise in condensation, or a story wrung from stone.
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Joshua Rothes
Joshua Rothes is a writer and researcher based in Seattle, Washington. As an author, he has published Six Novellas (Sublunary Editions, 2022), We Later Cities (Inside the Castle, 2021), and An Unspecific Dog (punctum books, 2017). He is the publisher of Sublunary Editions, and has compiled and edited the collected works of Kathleen Tankersley Young and Emanuel Carnevali, and the collected poems of Marguerite Young. He generally distrusts language.
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