Monday, November 01, 2004
O, Vozque Pulp
Carlos M. Luis (images) and Derek White (text)
Calamari Press
2004
40 pages
Softcover, $6
A self-publishing venture by Derek White, O, Vozque Pulp joins rather frazzled and fragile ink images (also watercoloring) by Carlos M. Luis with White’s short prose works, often carrying titles and travel narratives, slightly surreal, that attempt modern mythologizing casually and the reconstruction of pasts imaginatively. The texts use older, loaded symbols like ‘temple monkeys’, ‘divining rods’, ‘totem poles’, and bridge them with newer rituals, newer stories, but still with the feeling of creation stories lingering in the background. I kept thinking of J.G. Ballard’s, Joy Harjo’s, and Wassily Kadinsky’s stories while reading and viewing the chapbook.
Here’s "The False Hopes That Airports Raise":
It was when I was crossing a single-file bridge that every one I didn’t know yet came streaming from the other direction. We were all clinging to pieces of debris, just trying to get by each other.
On the suspension supports below was a brilliant red woodpecker perched on a nest just beneath the water line. It was alive and desperately defended itself every time a fish came along to get at its eggs. Human nature caused me to stick my foot under to nudge at it—to selfishly verify I wasn’t seeing things.
The red bird latched onto my shoe and started pecking and peeling back the sole. When I pulled my shoe out, the woodpecker held on. Once out of the water, it was dead, and it wasn’t really red, but a mottled grayish-orange. It was the same bird that rattled my chimney every morning when I didn’t live near a body of water.
Luis's image to/of/against/after the above is too large for the blog--I tried.
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The abstract drawings by Luis are what the viewer wants them to be. To me, they seem cellular, or almost what I would imagine goes on when one’s synapses fire. I don’t know which came first—the image or the text or both—but there are seeming correlations between them, most acutely in the story, "Eyes On The Divining Rod" and the image on the facing page. The image is slender and black, which sometimes looks like a tear in a fabric—there is ruffling at the edges. Or it’s a close-up of an artery. Or the divining rod. Or, or, or.
The experience of reading and viewing the book pushed me toward primordial thinking, that long taproot back to early utterances and images. Yet one also follows along with the specifics of the travels detailed in the texts. The mappable travels are mostly in the American West and Southwest. And Pacific Northwest. Utah. But there are other travels as well, usually involving animals. Here’s the brief "We Keep Reminding Ourselves To Remember":
The fountain in our garden was running until we painted our walls orange and changed the shower curtain to an opaque one with haphazard black lettering. Soon I will hear the birds calling, if it is still not too wet.
Luis's and White's book is a dreamlike visitation, a bit haunted, a bit humorous, tender, veering toward cosmological responses. Responding to the cosmos. And the cosmos responding through them. It is a convincing work, brightening and darkening, and especially welcomed.
Carlos M. Luis (images) and Derek White (text)
Calamari Press
2004
40 pages
Softcover, $6
A self-publishing venture by Derek White, O, Vozque Pulp joins rather frazzled and fragile ink images (also watercoloring) by Carlos M. Luis with White’s short prose works, often carrying titles and travel narratives, slightly surreal, that attempt modern mythologizing casually and the reconstruction of pasts imaginatively. The texts use older, loaded symbols like ‘temple monkeys’, ‘divining rods’, ‘totem poles’, and bridge them with newer rituals, newer stories, but still with the feeling of creation stories lingering in the background. I kept thinking of J.G. Ballard’s, Joy Harjo’s, and Wassily Kadinsky’s stories while reading and viewing the chapbook.
Here’s "The False Hopes That Airports Raise":
It was when I was crossing a single-file bridge that every one I didn’t know yet came streaming from the other direction. We were all clinging to pieces of debris, just trying to get by each other.
On the suspension supports below was a brilliant red woodpecker perched on a nest just beneath the water line. It was alive and desperately defended itself every time a fish came along to get at its eggs. Human nature caused me to stick my foot under to nudge at it—to selfishly verify I wasn’t seeing things.
The red bird latched onto my shoe and started pecking and peeling back the sole. When I pulled my shoe out, the woodpecker held on. Once out of the water, it was dead, and it wasn’t really red, but a mottled grayish-orange. It was the same bird that rattled my chimney every morning when I didn’t live near a body of water.
Luis's image to/of/against/after the above is too large for the blog--I tried.
*
The abstract drawings by Luis are what the viewer wants them to be. To me, they seem cellular, or almost what I would imagine goes on when one’s synapses fire. I don’t know which came first—the image or the text or both—but there are seeming correlations between them, most acutely in the story, "Eyes On The Divining Rod" and the image on the facing page. The image is slender and black, which sometimes looks like a tear in a fabric—there is ruffling at the edges. Or it’s a close-up of an artery. Or the divining rod. Or, or, or.
The experience of reading and viewing the book pushed me toward primordial thinking, that long taproot back to early utterances and images. Yet one also follows along with the specifics of the travels detailed in the texts. The mappable travels are mostly in the American West and Southwest. And Pacific Northwest. Utah. But there are other travels as well, usually involving animals. Here’s the brief "We Keep Reminding Ourselves To Remember":
The fountain in our garden was running until we painted our walls orange and changed the shower curtain to an opaque one with haphazard black lettering. Soon I will hear the birds calling, if it is still not too wet.
Luis's and White's book is a dreamlike visitation, a bit haunted, a bit humorous, tender, veering toward cosmological responses. Responding to the cosmos. And the cosmos responding through them. It is a convincing work, brightening and darkening, and especially welcomed.
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On top of this, we'll choose five of our advertisers at random, no matter what size or time they are with us, and reward them each with $100.000,00! Also after the site is filled for 50%! So, in fact, we are giving away $2,500.000,00! Part of that could be yours. All you need to do is buy some pixels on our site!
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