Earth’s Heart an/d Fungus – Richard Biddle

EARTH’S HEART

black white and grey asemic project evocative paper - scroll - shards - haptic asemic writings left to right vertical and horizontal mesh/mix schema.
text, etching, asemic writing, complex ghostly scroll pulsing presence of elements.
grey white-blue background, black gouge abstract in centre - bottom 1/3, same: asemic elements, faint text, etching, words Hear, Earth's (discernable near the top) one word each line, stencil effect, left to right.
Variation on image above. Starker, more minimal, Text one word each line: HEAR/EARTH/HEART/Beat/Heat dancing asemic vertical at right side bottom half.

FUNGUS

Visually splendid layers of colour geometric shapes collage elements, sections, glitch effect. colours: maroon, crimson, grey-blue, black, dark and light greens, beige, white, pink etc. a sense of cascading fields and urban elements geo-morphic-bio-forms.
As above vibrant conclave construction of colours shapes collage elements, movement. abstract energy pieces - fragments, etc. colliding colour schemes with constructivist feeling, music, a visual -score.
The letter U in caps circling around a vaguely atomic spinning icon with a multitude of circles (circles in circles) spinning out in centrifugal force-fields around the rectangular schema. A thin hand-drawn turquoise-green oblong circle encloses central image. Radiant radial. Piece is mostly monochromatic black, white, greys.
At the bottom of a 'fungal' shape on the right centre the word BREATH lends the entire piece a sense of spinning to the right. Colours black, grey, brown, umber, some green on left bottom third like film sprockets surrounding black/grey/brown vertical-rectangles. Other words: seeds, death(backwards) spinning sprockets -- evocative biomorphic spinning!

Series Statement: This group of poems explores myth as meaning that opens to infinite interpretation. All work (c) 2023 by Richard Biddle.

Richard Biddle is a visual poet. He is fascinated by language and explores its literal, figurative, and abstract qualities through experiments with asemic writing and constraint. He loves to play with accident, chance, and mistake, this is how his poems are discovered. His work has appeared in numerous zines, anthologies, and journals and, he has previously published 4 books of visual poetry. For further information check out his website: richardbiddle.com or follow him on Twitter: @littledeaths68 or Instagram: richard_biddle1968

search previous next tag category expand menu location phone mail time cart zoom edit close