Force Fields

Force Fields

text by Andrew Joron

art by Brian Lucas


If you had any doubt about the ethereal materiality of text, or the wispy tangibility of images, this new collaboration by Andrew Joron and Brian Lucas will dissuade you. Composed on a loaned typewriter (yes, they still exist), Joron's twenty short poems are physically marked with the flaws and auras of that particular machine. Meanwhile, Lucas's charcoal images evoke, along with the "force fields" of the title, much of the patternings, vibrations, and stark contrasts of text itself. In this topsy turvey way, the book becomes an argument--from the midst of an increasingly digital age--for the very specific power of some rather ancient technologies.

Andrew Joron is most recently the author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010). Brian Lucas is the author of Light House (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2006).

Published July 2010 by Hooke Press


Some of Lucas's images can be seen here: www.forcefieldsdrawings.blogspot.com

Video of Joron reading from Force Fields here.

It is Written

untitled water color
April 2010

Passionate Ornithology/Obi Kaufmann's blog

The artist/curator Obi Kaufmann came by for an impromptu studio visit a few days ago. I've never had anyone knock on my studio door before...but there he was!


http://oaklandsweetart.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/brian-lucas-light-house/


Also, the blog Passionate Ornithology has featured some of my recent work from the Maps of Mirabilia show.

http://passionateornithology.blogspot.com/


Thanks to both.

Universal Mind Decoder

Telepathic Memory

Breaking the Language Barrier

Ab Ovo

Illiminal

Travels

Brian Lucas: Maps of Mirabilia

The Hive Gallery

301 Jefferson St.

Oakland, CA 94607

Exhibition: March 5^th -26^th, 2010

Reception: March 5^th, 2010

6pm-9pm

March 6th-26th exhibition hours will be by appointment only*

The Hive Gallery will present new work by artist Brian Lucas.

Lucas's work consists of spontaneous compositions, improvised from their beginning and proceeding incrementally until the painting has manifested its own possibilities. Each painting corresponds to one another, forming a transportive circuit of micro- and macro-cosmic images that could also be said to be relief maps of the inner eye. The morphological shapes and minute accents are glimmers and reflections of a consciousness seeking to move beyond the purely phenomenal and into areas of more varied meaning.

The paintings are considered to be Maps of Mirabilia: symbolic depictions of the marvelous.

*Contact: 510-926-1664 or earinsoundATyahoo.com for information.

Image: Preverbal Oasis, acrylic on wood, 2010

For N.L.

Air

Forest Caul

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Flow

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