Archive of: aND, mIEKAL

13 by mIEKAL aND

Concrete poets spend so much time looking at the physical substance of language that they find they can't help looking for the physical substance of language in places where most people—and most poets—never think to look.

The human brain seems hardwired, no matter what, for pattern recognition and for metaphor making. All good poetry is actively engaged in the latter. All good concrete poetry actively engages both.

It is for these reasons I place this series of LITHOKONS by mIEKAL aND in front of your eyes, your fingers, your toes, your nose.

For those of you who would prefer to peruse these in a setting free of the clutter of the sidebar informations, you are invited to the alternate formatting of the aND, mIEKAL author archive.

All of the original photos from which these works were generated were photographed in 2002 at Cave Point in Door County, WI which is an otherworldly assortment of underwater caves & rock formations on the Lake Michigan side of Wisconsin's peninsula.

A to the power

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alphalith

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belltower

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clock

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curse

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gomplex

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lithopod

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ox

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phallow

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star village

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turbine

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venerable deposit

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wormgram

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mIEKAL aND is a longtime DIY cultural anarchist & the creator of an infoplex worth of visual-verbal lit, audio-art, performance ritual & hypermedia for the Macintosh, all distributed by Xexoxial Editions. His hypermedia works reside at JOGLARS Crossmedia Broadcast. Recent work has focused on activating online collaborative workspaces where writers & media artists can create collective digital works in a real time environment. Recent books include "Literature Nation" with Maria Damon, published by Potes and Poets Press and "advancienced snakespeared" published by extant. With Camille Bacos, he has producted 2 visual-poetry digital films, "entre pyrobiblios" and "The Samsara Laundry" which has been shown at festivals at Harvard & Notre Dame.

Since 1991, he has made his home at Dreamtime Village, a hypermedia / permaculture village project, located in the driftless bioregion of southwestern Wisconsin. And devotes much time to creating edible wilderness indoors & out, growing such things as figs, citrus, cherries, grapes & chestnuts. 1998 marked the creation of THE DRIFTLESS GROTTO OF WEST LIMA, a permanent public grotto/park/installation which when finished will feature a bird-operated time machine in a 25 ft blue glass tower.