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An apparition is a dead poem which is believed to appear or  become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image . 2020. Unlike the works I've shared so far, this week's beguiling and haunting visual poem by Laura Kerr features an image-based strategy containing no text. Her piece (and the accompanying title/epigram) describes a poem as an ambiguous construct that appears in shape-shifting form. The elusive visual syntax of the image, unstable, surreal and contingent both intrigues and unsettles the reader/viewer. Featuring no entry or exit points it is a challenging and uncanny space in which mystery and alternate universes might abound. Like a hall of mirrors that is simultaneously (and strangely) full and empty, it feels like an empty space waiting for a story to arrive. The framed image of a bedroom within a bedroom (within yet another bedroom > ) is patrolled by a floating dot (masquerading as a period?) that traces its elongated rectangular pa

Ben Mikuska. eFluent , 2018. View full-size animation   HERE . This weeks .gif blog-shot features an amazing work by the brilliant and wildly multi-talented Ben Mikuska (artist, bassist, building designer, art preparator extraordinaire etc.).  eFluent  suggests both the auditory and visual potential of language and features a confluence of sound and textual delights in a deep, dark glyph-scape populated by the letter  e .   A solitary e appears that quickly multiplies into a vast swarming field of eeees bubbling upwards in constant eruption, surging backwards and forwards to and from the viewer. A short-story or poem starring the letter e ?  eFluent  succeeds at being simultaneously playful and nightmarish. The soundtrack features music by St. Catharines-based improv noise/sound band TZT featuring: Gary Barwin ,  Gregory Betts , Devon Fornelli ,  Ben Mikuska ,  and myself.