Tender to Empress

Visual Poems

Maureen Alsop

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English

Wet Cement Press
15 April 2023

Art & design styles: Conceptual art; Other graphic art forms; Electronic, holographic & video art

Maureen Alsop, like other goddesses of myth, likes to work at the crossroads, the place where words give shape to image, where images speak back, and our sense of language expands beyond the frontier. The reader is invited to wander among the signs and signifiers. A visual narrative may appear then disappear, a voice might be heard, then quieted. Colors have their say, words have their way. Adjoining images engage in dialogue, or argue loudly. Faces watch us, we watch them; their world is glimpsed and lost. This is work that listens at that angle where the ghosts can be heard, a place where our sense of language is distilled across time and form. These images are a record of that exchange; an alchemy that takes place at the horizons of perception.

By: Maureen Alsop
Imprint: Wet Cement Press
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9798985620672
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 15 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Tender to Empress: Visual Poems

Enter the realm of Maureen Alsop's stunning visual poetry and you've taken a geographic turn toward the history of identity. Identity, in these images, becomes the timeless boundary between private and public selves ....This place feels strangely compelling and unnervingly beautiful-and like the earth's natural environments constantly at risk ....We are ever interconnected, bound by a third-party, strange narrator who must live in the artist's crawl space between one mind and the other. A new language courtship juxtaposes and recovers fresh consciousness as readily as it grounds the experience put before us. Personalized, daring syntax connects our external and internal worlds, image by image, word after word. These delighted disengagements provide the psychological nuance of eternity. They defy gravity. -Elena Karina Byrne. Author, most recently, of If This Makes You Nervous