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23 September 2004. Excerpt from a Taxonomical Essay on Visio-Textual Art, Part 7

We're back in taxonomical problematicalness, if that's the word, with Greg Evason's drawn-over poem, "privacy," which seems at first an illuscription: a poem about privacy with an accompanying illustration that dramatizes the publicity, or broadcasting, the persona's privacy will get. The drawing is on top of the text but not genuinely fused with it.


On the other hand, the text as a whole can be thought of as generating its illustration. In that case the illustration is no longer an illustration of the poem's text but is part of that text. Again, a tough choice taxonomically, but I favor calling the work a litagraph, chiefly on the grounds that it is more like a pure visual poem than it is like such illuscriptions as comic books--and conventionally illustrated poems.

Far easier to classify is jwcurry's "LINE 4":


It is almost surely some kind of poem, but too defaced to make out. It is therefore, an illumage whose subject is the disintegration of texts, or poems, or language, or whatever. It made me think of Ozymandias. Since "LINE 4" contains no words but strongly suggests textuality, I term it a textual illumage.




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