I Should Probably Make Some More
Jim Leftwich
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I was thinking about writing when I made them -- very specifically -- and I was -- with certainty -- not thinking about drawing, and neither was I thinking about something to communicate, with these glyphs being my (failed) attempt at communicating it.
Perhaps I was drawing, even though I was not thinking about drawing. I am willing to leave that, for myself and others, as a possibility to consider.
For what it may be worth: I came to these glyphs as a poet, not as a visual artist. In my relationship with them they are not primarily a part of art history, or of literary history, they are a part of my personal history. As such, they belong to the world of poetry and related matters (but that is only a subjective assessment, from my personal experience and perspective).
I added them to the stock of available reality.
I rescued them from eternal nonexistence.
I let them go, and they are becoming what they will be.
Nonsemic mark-making in the twenty-first century is neither prior to nor post- language. It is perhaps always already in medias res, in the center of the universe (which is everywhere), surrounded by languages in all directions, immersed in the experimentally infinite human moment.
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03.26.2023
