X E R O L A G E 3 8 — Peter Ciccariello
Imaginal Landscapes
I can't believe I'm finally seeing all of these images together,
resonant families, communalities, Kristeva's chora-chorus! Wonderful!
Such original work - these are master-mistress-pieces - their
philosophic tendencies ring true, readings and rereadings. I've
followed their development just as language murmurs, burbles - their
linguistic-paleontologies, infinite and indeterminate depths. Where
is the locus of these landscapes? Who are the inscribers? Who are the
inscribed?
—Alan Sondheim
I wondered how Ciccariello's swirling-colored imaginary would
translate into the de-rigueur black-and-white of the magnificent
Xerolage series; the results are vertiginously thrilling. Surfaces,
pliable and lapidary, inscribed with disoriented fragments of words
and alphabetic spasms, collide and interweave in a visual dance of
merging and emerging.
—Maria Damon
Put on your Alice-in-Wonderland head and dive into these poems. Don't
be surprised if you run into Ian Hamilton Finlay and M.C. Escher,
and, I swear, Franz Kafka's cockroach (he's a bit shy though), and
many others who have enriched our imaginations. These are sensuous
lettrist landscapes to inhabit, to help escape the habits we often
reside in.
—Crag Hill
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