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AS VISUALITY

ANNE GORRICK

B L A Z E V O X [ B O O K S ]Buffalo, New York


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As Visualityby Anne GorrickCopyright 2015

Published by BlazeVOX [books]

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced withoutthe publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews.

Printed in the United States of America

Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey GatzaCover Art by Anne Gorrick

First EditionISBN: 978-1-60964-182-5Library of Congress Control Number: 2014949806

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Folio #1A Rarely Seen Shift

August 4, 2009

in a flickering / cameraless / age without process / overshadowcrossing / paperless / narrative readymade / seldom seenan event / of / great interestno editorial / preoccupied with / appropriation / scrim, staticwords / caught in / netsless like work / than / seriestransfer / mix / a little collageseemingly random / all manner / part core / part diary / an event in large numberstranslate / I manipulate / his static / a postcard / a windstormimprovisatory / paperless / hatching / laying / face down / dry nibcoherently famous / he is less studied / fluctuating / a veneer without touch /

critic crosses paperless / astronauts as small as televisionShe wanders in his filtering systems / among his better known / illust rations /

few moving parts / sheen and agein gesture / and / clearerheadline and newsmakers / She is part of his / permanent / collectionTheir wedding: / a / transfer drawing


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Folio #2Devoted to Astronauts for example

August 5, 2009

a mistake / to label / the / accumulationsa map / as small as / astronautshousehold appliances / the recurring sparkplugs / their materialism / is / personalthe favored image / an offhand target / spare use / signs (def: greasy)/ are bornSometimes / forms / are alterednewspaper headlines / white gouache / in the lower right cornerpitching or battling / miniscule / hot air, left foot / his personal use (def: Greekless)wives cluster around his smiling / group portraits / she can do easierconjurings / (def: greasy) / to say / schematicsHer margins / (def: greedily) / appear / several timesdelicacy or drawing / a grim joke / showing his orbithelicopters establish politics / an / exhibition catalogPoems Wanted / shown tackling / a rocket scientist (def: greaved, greaves, Greek)Such seems to say / snippets, sports, stand-ins / bespeak / entrenchedplight or portrait? / ways that thwart easy / expand her spare uses / in five red nations


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Folio #3The Recurring Spark, a Stand-in

August 5, 2009

Drawing departs / most / emphaticallyhis conflation of / high school / and / footballwhen reading / is / sprinkled / with lookingoccasions / in / bottlesback-and-forth / windshield-wiper action / tracea repeated interest / in his / analogiesgenius folded like history / reverses his famous / in action not in (oto oto oto oto otologic)the highly structured / hatching / thrilling and retracedrawing betters her worst / eradicate / his / tumultMr. Rauschenberg / never stopped / foldingback-and-forth / repeat and reverse / the body in contact with the workHe thrills her formation / in tumult / to present (face plate number)View / the famous absenceIn the drawing Trapped / all this going / blunt / rebus / yether outlines / are / a mistake


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Folio #4crystalline fogged s himmer

August 6, 2009

Fragments / of / Houston S treethis comments / were / experimentaleven / the flagstones / almost / faintedbig paintings / punctuate / the bodyfigurative / a passing car / literalness / recoils from memoryin 90-degree rotation / color-coded / the line of her inquiry / bolder in pictoriala / mirror reversal / light snowmathmatical / fuguelikesequences arranges / blotted schemasby gridding the pictorial field / into sequences of boxesshe is a thin fall of snow / splayedallover / optical / dazzlethe complete lack on meaning / overlaps / in passing carsher degraded replication / he is rarely discussed / recurrentlymore garrulous / by contrast / numbered


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Folio #5Nestled in the lower right corner

August 7, 2009

handmade / mechanical / interventionin a flickering / manipulated / in solventthe / most coherentlyprocess and subject / the veneer of touch44 of him / laying face downcaught in their / pers onal asidestime-capsule / astronaut s / clearer than Danteeach / fragment / without sentimentalitystrobelike / magazine clippingsher postcards / her windstorms / sheen in a mannerwords caught in / oharagrenades wanted / delicacy invadesmen in suits / sprinkled / in the marginsmap / orbit / free-ranging or thw artthe purchasable / stands in / for the artist


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Folio #6Locking up the imagery

August 7, 2009

The first objects to / attach themselves to us / forksknivesspoons

this cutlery bore / turbulently nocturnaltrace / cast / printhis very gloomy mood / his stoic / uninflectedwhether / s h e could even survive (Follow an aspen or flourite

through the fact forest)their / locust / life cyclepunctuated / by / mating and dyingthis bugs / peculiar ontogenyon a formal level / fused / dualismseye and nose / cavities (Lyons rayon star)stenciled layouts / warning signsour heart-shaped / nasal openings / rhymeDegas, Munch / procreative (Transom clasp and cancer)tripartite / tightly swarmed / in a strict fashionWere they a prefigured three? / any given person an organism /

neither separable or reconcilable


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Folio #7This apparent lean inward

August 7, 2009

unexpected / entirely / un-Johnsianboxes of / identity / and disjunctionplanks / faucets / clothing / untitlesarm casts / camouflaged / in skinhis fake wood-grain / nails / shadowsthe floating brushwork / bristle / her ph oto-puzzlespikemen flail / perilous / small in seriespuzzle / patterning / the disease in possible / meaningshe scrapes away his / compositional / deviceshe / is reformulated on / a larger scaletheir / ventriloquism / somberher trompe loeil / traps the vieweralso a changed notion of timehis wooden sticks hinged / banished / tiltedTheir trick images / irresolvable / either-or


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Folio #8These features projected and reprojected

August 11, 2009

The / auto biographical / tendencies / of / early childhooda venerable trick image / nailed upher artifacts / her narrative intent / in accumulationHis promise / his disappointments / his self-re ferenceThe imaginations / spare change / enchainment to fated c hangeTheir personal iconography: / nesting bird

seahorsesnowman

mutant or mutable / windblownDraft Pistons / comingleThe human forms / susceptibility / to innocence / boundhowever / peculiar / their lipsin graphic highlight / each / shadow / fallsHis strategy / meant to suggest / a trio of clothsa changing point of view / an artistic code for time passingHer broad flat fields / eroticism / centerpiece / his ambitious cycleWe are sometimes / shown / reprojected


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Folio #9Announced in original alloy

August 17, 2009

a smalltown marriage / environments / dissolve / primarily in the homes of relativesThey were wonderfully remote / from their / own circumstancesShe resolved / to cease becoming / any trace of resemblancefew surviving objects / including / Kurt SchwittersThey announced their / private compulsionstheir gridded systems / their closed and variant forms / paint and a cast faceentails / overpaintings / strips of newspapermaking it switched from enamel / wax-based / over lay / in swift distinctall flat iconic / His common public occurrences / factual, exterior / a sum of corrections

Johns p. 117Her concerns regarding / accuracy / coidentity and depiction / sensually jarring, their

monochrome degreesan elusive

embedded image / in lidded boxes / dispersedTango in alphabetic sequence / objects inserted like / implications / a preoccupation

with the space behindHis body suggested occulsion / canvas flaps / her name colored in elegy / in Dada revivalher taciturn comes apart / disparate, jumpy / optically bewilder / her figure and groundTheir color / disassociated / from structure


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Folio #10Even in shade his integers

August 17, 2009

ceased acclaim / in / the pictorial field / aggressive imagelesscluster in black and w hite / our immediate secondariesthese new rocket-bursts / his reticence / splashy / deadpana deliberate dryness / self-contained isolation / hard edged or evident / fostered by

museumsShe is ardent, early / He is bewildered, sharply / They are apparent with workmuted / airy, choked / a manner permitted artrigorous flatness / even in shadeintegers rendered atop / in obvious paradea heavily structured / breakdownShe insisted / on / his literalness / his each motiffrom common experience / to deviceShe exposed the process of / her own makingHe consists of no / descriptive titleas opposed to painting / the act of paintingdescribe / this shift / toward containment


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Folio #11and abutting horizontal

August 22, 2009

Can you include / the following year / as / an image?Near simultaneously / howeverTheir relationship / is both / referential / and / nondescriptiveThey brought the marks of / naming / and / introducingthree stacked / was her favorite / stratagemmutable / calibrationIn each other they courted / deception and contradictionHer false starts / cues at oddsHow to induce discordance? / Our metal memorials / frozen / crowdedThey made chains / strategies / tight groups of reiterationsHer capacity for reversals / another form of printmakingComposition has not serialized thembreaks and layerings / signal / reiterationarcheology in his / confusion / this shiftorder breaks as easily / as a descriptive title


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Folio #12Between a thermometer and when water freezes

August 22, 2009

A chill intervened / titles of negation / and / alteredbleak underlined / standard colorsTheir distress / slides / out of registerecho flails, falls down / her guise in / brokenrefractions / grey glued neutralityunder pressure / smearing / thinned-out, stainedscraped residue / troubled a telling / examplestamped, dripped / her / accusatory physical stinganother piece of frozen, erotic / contentThere were increas ing / instances of himmirror / an insideout fold / Their surfaces rolled around each otherThe implied space in his thinkingWhere did she put / her / narrative assemblages?His sections appeared hinged / by diagrammatic constructionsMarcel Duchamp: / an engineer of notes, indices


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Folio #13Increasing instances of mirroring

August 29, 2009

We imprint with our / armsfacefeethands / The body imprints large

The divers extreme reach / crucified in space / periscope and drowningThe skin of his drawingsoil against paper / charcoal / stainflattened / distended / latexHis own body was / asymptomaticHis own body was presumably / autobiographicbody / fragments / combineThey announced their own / morbidityWork sparsely / in / newly acquiredtranslucent ink / a rich patterningInk puddle d on their sheetsOur nonabsorbant surfaces / are an important new motifmaps / boundaries / without names48 states encoded


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Folio #14without names or any other proper geographic indications

August 30, 2009

a nation into a skeincontours and names / her labored exactitudesShe elaborated on a / far more complex him / hymnreckless gesturalShe is bright and agitated / in her execution / greyed down1961-1963 / signature affixed / a rare explicit indication / hera monumentality self-summarizedHe increas ed her / rhetorical range / Bitterness underlined in yellowTheir home was / quasi-narrativeShe appeared in hinged sections to him / diagrammatic instructionsHe was a series of mechanical / indicesThe body as lithography / unprecedentedencas ed constructionsa newly acquired beach / waves in sheets of translucent plastic materialactive and often / the last of them heavily


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Folio #15unsettled her flourishing slowed

November 2, 2009

His experimental neon / His metals oscillate / His bright and familiar formatHer variables scaled / a skullprintTwo signs made out of glass / Thank YouThe onset of a central rift / electrification / her tendencies amplifiedtravel as assemblagesouvenir likenesses / the partial body of the Watchmana Duchampian set of notes / self-questioning / spy / He is hugely programmatican orchestrated / implied flat / clus ters and ratiosscreenprinting / stemprocedures in a beach house / repertoire / screen and windowfork and spoon: / her example toward himHe appears photoenlarged / dislocated from his slipping lettersexperiments / overlapsAreas of her are slick and s mooth / random in structure / Her edges raised in white

paint / Decoyinterstices 1971 / suite / valedictory this phase


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Folio #16the sum of his inquiry

November 2, 2009

bodycast / veristicThey inhabited different bodies

right half right handleft half left handHe overpaints the previous decade

She has been radically underlined (def: Great Dane, greaten)glimpsed markings / passing scarsobsessive dumbness / lack or rough / muffled shadingsonly discernible / in a change of direction / Hetraces dazzle / in mathmatical / alloverscent to covert topologya splayed however / degraded / blotted prankingthe framework is antithetical to poured (def: Greekling)elus ive titles / in numerous recoiling / her body in printHe is emo tionally interested (def: greediness, greedy)rules shift in orchestra / the scaled recurr ences / He is largely impliedWeeping women become a modern / abstraction / discussed


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Folio #17The last motif in his cycle

December 5, 2009

Their imagery / began to return from / the margins / Their literal versionspunnedHis ritualized manners / in painted bronze / testicles, vulval, blunter / concentric

(def: abutilon)Tantric canvases / in cartoon / Her prominent instances

His independent renderingNo real freedom / in / executed / fashions (map: DC)She is punctuated in open air(def: acacia, academe) His eager / Romantic castThey s plit their own shells / Their larval bodyHer second self a / perceptual / illusionThey were made / to rhyme / formally (def: abyssal)third and final / in tight swarmingThe increasing dominance / in their concernsher rigidityhis constriction / intens ify / as we now knowframed in frieze / moderation / a 17 th century image Nepalese / life and death (def: abut)Their dotted lines marked / years of construction (map: Silver Spring)


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Folio #18Their decisive break with the years

December 5, 2009

He was composed of a / limited range of images (def: abutment, abysm, abysmal, abyss)She instigated / shockinglythe / combination of / paintings / and / body partsThey revert to / previous / structures (Theory regnant as garnets, just north of ardent)identity / paradox / disjunction in former worksHer formats suggested / his tackboard walls / together they were readymades pace banished from work (Arps coy practical, the sash-roar from Caracas, his face

frayed) (A practiced chrism, Pray for her trace, Troy or tent? Fasten to tactic)her depths were shallow / layered / consistently presenthis skin mottled in unnatural / camouflagea vase to trap the viewer / refocus / also included citationshe draws her with a rude simplicity (Hare

HeartHater = (afferent)HearHeat)

masking tape attaches them / to each other: / ventriloquistsThey displayed a spacial / perplexity (def: acalephe)grissaille / sinuous faceless swoonfoul-skinned, same altarpiece / streaked, veiled / upside down / a three language

warning about falling ice Johns p. 319


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Folio #19Racing thoughts in correct orientation

December 6, 2009

A Mona Lisa decal / appears again, smaller, on the rightabstraction via tracing / her bath in bolder / puzzle patterningHis references to religious

experience / disease / and their possible meaningsThey revisit each others imageryThey scrape each others half-circlesHer outstretched arm(prints) / and pictures of the 1960sHe in three panels / reformulated / on a larger scalein somber tones: / self-reference

memory implicits o carefully nurtured

Picasso appears in place of / Duchampcontext intensified / by his disjointed facethe female sitters eyes / devised onward / cleaved to the side of an open field /

volumetric trompe loeila suite of dislocated inkTaken together / they comingle in their / innocence in graphic windblownTheir artifacts / their seas onal symbols / artist and habitatTheir narrative accumulation / in promises / canvas to canvas (def: green)


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Folio #20promises and disappointments of the general human cycle Johns p. 337

December 7, 2009

the numerous / attributes in locale (def: gear, gear-box)Shadows fall ondifferent walls

bricks or tiles or boards / correspond to / their various housesan owed iconography: / minotaurshadows displaced / split / moving household goods in a cartHis strategy seen in / sliding quarter-shifts (def: gear case, gearing, gearless, gear-wheel)Her implied / cylindricality / Her split titlesThey were more evidently / attached to the idea of / themselves

endings renewalsaquatint etchingfour-armed cross form / (def: gehenna, geisha, gel)

His further emphasized / rotationthe seasons are densely packed / the sparest and most open fieldsrendered air clear / airilyHis broad flat simplicity / like / a childrens drawingShe is an appropriate vehicle / for earliest memories / a miniature boat

thered sailsmidnight blueof an untitled bath (def: geese, geeser, geezer, gegenschein)

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