Spring 2024 Book Launch!
We’re proud to present the next round of Mercurius books!
Mercurius’s Future World(s) is an anthology of essays that look beyond nihilistic neoliberalism.
Mercurius No. 2: Local Nature Devas is a selection of texts and images from the Poetry of Life, Society, Transitions, and Images sections of the website.
No unifying structure
As with the execution of an etching (drawing with a fine needle into a blackened wax ground), or with a poem (spontaneous first word/s, no need to understand), I begin my drawings on an impulse, not knowing or wanting to know the outcome, working spontaneously, attentive to detail - a process I have learnt to trust.
Unspeakable: Asemic mail collaboration
An asemic mail collaboration
Bête Noire
A selection of visual poems
There’s Nothing to Be Done
A visual poem.
Midsummer and Other visual poems
These five visual poems reflect on belonging and not belonging, on the unreliability of memory and perspective, and even language
Remains
These visual poems are made of remains. Remains is all what was left of what we don't use. Especially what remains of words and colors. Words that we no longer use, that turn into fragments and stammering. Words related to the rest of colors left unused in the tubes.
Swag
Swag is part memoir fragment, part automatic-writing, typed and used in one of many explorations of images and words placed together without an obvious, explicit relationship.
Caught in the Wheels of Justice
Six digital drawings
The Tower of Babel
In the summer of 2010 I found myself collecting and downloading reproductions of works of art that referenced the Tower of Babel which I pasted into a new sketchbook. By the end of the summer, I had painted a series of 12 towers on A1 paper, another 12 ‘Small Towers’, this time around a foot square in format, and a number of studies and sketchbook pages on the same theme.
Excavating Kafka
My handmade collages are intended as a rebuke to the lifeless perfection of Photoshopped images. They are also intended to provoke an authentic response by combining images in a way that challenges old habits of seeing.
Visual Pantoums
Visual and concrete poetry is often less linear than written poetry, more like a collage or an abstract painting, which you can start and finish anywhere within the frame. These, on the other hand, are collages which use ‘lines’ and ‘stanzas’, so you might want to start at the top left and work your way down to the bottom right.
Local Nature Devas
The energy of the plants in the park near my home has a visionary quality. The nature devas appear. They radiate a soft, peculiar luxury, with distinct characteristics sculpted from light. Waves of light, wind blown fields of light.
Found-word Collage Poems
These visual poems are from an ongoing series of collages (2400+) built from phrases created unintentionally through the accident of magazine page design. Each contiguous fragment of text (roughly the equivalent of a poetic line) is entirely removed from its original sense and syntax. The text is not altered (except for the occasional deletion of prefixes, suffixes, or punctuation) and includes no attributable phrases. The lines of each collage are, in most cases, sourced from different magazines.
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Creating photo-haiga is a central part of my daily art practice: I find it both invigorating and meditative, an often odd, but for me, happy combination. I have found that my photo-haiga can bring some readers closer to the poems. And please note that sometimes I find the photos to match poems sitting in waiting.
Two Digital Paintings
Two digital paintings with surreal qualities
Birds of Los Angeles
A photo-collage by Hiromi Suzuki, to run concurrently with her short story Ghosts Passing along Sunset Boulevard up in Fiction
Point and Click
Point and Click is a new experiment that combines generative visual artwork with pointillist aesthetics, in order to create a type of new media that resembles old paintings. Taking inspiration from artists such as Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh, this work honours their contributions by applying their methods to art created through artificial programs.
Poster Poems
Two Poster Poems by Rus Khomutoff
Water Fight
Bruce Louis Dobson’s collages portray the bizarre events occurring in a world beyond reality. Dreamlike images with vivid color and exciting emotion.
The never-ending quest…
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