etceteras was gleaned from fragments of visual poems, images of poetry bowls, and collage remnants from bookworks created by artist and visual poet Marilyn R. Rosenberg over the past 25+ years.... More > Originally based on her bookwork named "5", from which many middle layers for etceteras pages can be found, Marilyn R. Rosenberg creates a totally new spatial and meaningful experience that evolves and grows through drawing, color, collage, semic and asemic writing, creating not only a visual feast for the senses but an implied narrative. etceteras is a gorgeous artist’s book with strongly multi-dimensional and layered pages. It is unique, hard to put down, and hard not to pick up again and again.< Less
RED is blood, passion, life. Squeezed repeated circles & eggs imply renewal; some have the illusion of holes, as if we look back or into the future. The muse hides as time flies. Calligraphic... More > marks, the living line, become unknown beings, are language. Bold letters turn into objects in the underwater & sky atmosphere; part words are strong entities near layered part circles. Asides abide. Half of the visual poem suddenly overlaps its other capsized half. The reader is enticed to turn the page and read on. Upside down reading excites & irritates the reading process; read in one direction, turn, now differently reread a beginning, middle and a starting again.
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C. Mehrl Bennett and Marilyn R. Rosenberg are masterful collaborators, poets, and inventors of colorful images and themes. “Dancing ants reading” – one of the delightful phrases... More > swarming in this vivid artist’s book, which has as its central theme the soles of our feet and all that such a topic implies about self, time, motion through life, and one’s place(s) in the universe. Extremely colorful and full of fascinating detail, it is a work which can be repeatedly enjoyed and reveals new secrets each time. Appealing as visual poetry, as graphic design, and as an artist’s book, this collaboration achieves the most fulfilling of any collaboration between 2 artists: it becomes as if it were the work of a third person, a new artist never before discovered. - John M. Bennett / February 2011< Less
C. Mehrl Bennett and Marilyn R. Rosenberg are masterful collaborators, poets, and inventors of colorful images and themes. “Dancing ants reading” – one of the delightful phrases... More > swarming in this vivid artist’s book, which has as its central theme the soles of our feet and all that such a topic implies about self, time, motion through life, and one’s place(s) in the universe. Extremely colorful and full of fascinating detail, it is a work which can be repeatedly enjoyed and reveals new secrets each time. Appealing as visual poetry, as graphic design, and as an artist’s book, this collaboration achieves the most fulfilling of any collaboration between 2 artists: it becomes as if it were the work of a third person, a new artist never before discovered. - John M. Bennett / February 2011< Less
Otoliths issue eleven, part two, contains work by Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Alexander Jorgensen, Samit Roy, Bobbi Lurie, Dorothee Lang, John Martone, Michael Aanji Crowley, Scott Helmes & John M.... More > Bennett, Zev Jonas, Peter Ciccariello, Aaron Crippen, Reed Altemus, Sheila E. Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett, Sean Burn, Mary Ellen Derwis, Joe Balaz & Mary Ellen Derwis, John M. Bennett & collaborators, John M. Bennett, Stephen Nelson, Spencer Selby, & Manas Bhattacharya.< Less
Otoliths issue thirteen, part two, contains work by Reed Altemus, Alexander Jorgensen, John Moore Williams, John M. Bennett & C. Mehrl Bennett & Geof Huth, Alex Gildzen, Dorothee Lang &... More > Jeff Crouch, Angela Genusa, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Manas Bhattacharya, Alyson Torns, Manas Bhattacharya & Aria Abraham, Carlyle Baker, Ryan B. Richey, Joe Balaz, Daniel f Bradley, Michael Aanji Crowley, Sheila E. Murphy, Obododimma Oha, Márton Koppány, Stephen Nelson, Tray Drumhann, sean burn, & Peter Ciccariello.< Less
Otoliths issue seventeen, part two, is in full color & contains poems, paintings & vispo from Irving Weiss, Alexander Jorgensen, Reed Altemus, Silvio De Gracia, Mara Patricia Hernandez,... More > Grzegorz Wróblewski, Carlos Soto Román, Carlos Soto Román & Chelsea Thoumsin, Samit Roy, Michael Brandonisio, John M. Bennett, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Emma Smith, John Moore Williams, John M. Bennett & Sheila E. Murphy, Dorothee Lang & Karyn Eisler & Susan Gibb, sean burn, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Joe Balaz, & John Martone.< Less
Otoliths issue twenty-one, part two, is in full color & contains photographs, poetry, paintings, visual poetry & things that blur those boundaries from Jen Besemer, Cilla McQueen, Jennifer L.... More > Tomaloff, SJ Fowler, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Ed Baker, Robert Gauldie, Rosaire Appel, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Beni Ransom, John M. Bennett, Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett, Sam Langer, Peter LaBerge, Cherie Hunter Day, Emma Smith, Sheila E. Murphy, & Reijo Valta.< Less
Otoliths issue twenty-seven, part two, is in full color & contains visuals & text from Spencer Selby, Jack Galmitz, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, George McKim, Márton Koppány, Sharon... More > Kaye, Joel Chace, Haley Rene Thompson, Lars Palm, Stephen Nelson, Alexander Jorgensen, Bobbi Lurie, Marcia Arrieta, Michael Brandonisio, Samantha Seto, Louise Landes Levi, Sam Langer, Reed Altemus, & Andrew Topel collaborations with Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, with Carol Stetser, with Matthew Stolte, with Scott Helmes, & with Jessy Kendall.< Less