Vispo

I don't know how to feel about the Vispo thing. Interesting that they would take language as an organic, constantly morphing thing - compared to ink, water, sky molecules, the very nature of existence itself. However, the fact that words can be re-arranged and re-formed in this way isn't enough - it has to be taken down to the very smallest level, the lines and curves in the shape of a letter itself. "Letters are everywhere at once, hovering in consideration. Visual poetry documents this occurrence."

Also interesting to use visual arts - a solid picture, something that does not move - to portray the fluidity of words.

"The material of a letter/image is line & curve & angle & shape, etc - an expression of both intuition and mathematics."

The significance of staring kind of went over my head - the three entities of the self, and the point of the brain being it's own entity, even, all confused me more after I thought I had grasped the concept. I feel that the meaning behind all of this is lost in the repetition of the point that "words are a prison" and letters are like atoms. The Starists sound a little like Aesthetes, except with words instead.

Nonetheless, I really like the actual pieces. One could argue that they really aren't making too much of a statement for visual art - after all, line/curve/angle/shape are all vital components of visual art, regardless of whether they come from a a previous shape (letter) or not.