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10 April 2004. Geof Huth is in town to visit his in-laws, so I've decided to treat him nicely for a change. Actually, I've been meaning to post the image below for several days. It's, "Dreaming Eiaou," one of his "fidgetglyphs," as he calls them. (I'd prefer "fidgeglyphs.") "Wrawings" is his general term for these kinds of works--because they are written/drawn. Letters and other textual elements like punctuation marks are, I believe, always their subject. He's done hundreds, he says. Most of the ones I've seen are pleasant but minor. This one, though, is one of his best, in my view: a wonderfully Kleeic moodpiece.
To avoid treating him too nicely, I will now attack his designation of "Dreaming Eiaou" and his other fidgetglyphs as "visual poetry." For me, it is a picture of letters. It has no lexical meaning. If it were a sketch of an aspirin, I would not call it visual pharmacology. If it were a brilliant photograph of an apple orchard, I would not call it visual agriculture. If it were a beautifully, "poetically" rendered oil painting of a cloud, I would not call it visual meteorology. All it is, is a vividly simple picture of a serene no one saw until Geof did.
(But, it is importantly textual, as well, since what could be more dreamfully peaceful than the sound of vowels? So it is, in my terminology, a semic Litragraph.)
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