Asemic of Reflection

Sunset reflections near Rebecca Resinki's house

Below, rather inferior scans of Rebecca's beautiful recent pamphlet. I love both and will look at them and muse. 

Musing will do me good. Reflection is necessary.

Rebecca apologises for not responding more quickly.

My correspondents must be absolutley fed up with me.

Thank you all and thank you, Rebecca, for a beautiful mailing.

The huge and encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy was produced by the English clergyman Robert Burton (1577–1640). It explores a dizzying assortment of mental afflictions, including what might now be called depression. Burton considers melancholy to be an ‘inbred malady’ in all of us and admits that he is ‘not a little offended’ by it himself 

Sometimes the machine imprint on a letter is vispo in itself. 

 

Little songs and Ripples from Rebecca Resinski

Rebecca's Boekie of sonnets is a ripple of marks, sounds and motion.  She has sent me two things and the book is echoed in the photo she sent of the marks made in the water while kayaking.

I like the two juxtaposed.  I like the weightlessness of the boekie and its monochromatic, quiet, songs. and I find the shapes and movement in the water and its colour, the perfect counterpoint. 

Each page of the boekie is made of an original arrangement of marks.  There is no repetition. It is a book of symbols, without rhyming couplets.

I also notice the pairing of stamps, the echoes of colour.  Your aesthetic is sensitive and delicate. Beautiful. Thank you for a wonderful mailing.