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Band names as art? The newest Magnetic Poetry set? “Exploration of the visual identity of language vs. the conceptual nature of language”? Or, possibly, something even better than all that… Whether he means to or not, Jay Jurisich is making something I like.

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Jurisich asks,

Can words and phrases issue spontaneously in a manner analogous to the Abstract Expressionist “action painting”? Can language be “used” in a way that is not primarily communication, poetry, or logical, yet inhabit a physical existence apart from a conceptual one?

The answer is something like the New York School + the Painted Word. But really, I just get a genuine, stylistic kick out of it. I wanna put it on a screen-printed hoody, album cover, or write it on a bathroom wall.

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You can even search his works for specific words. I searched for “Beast” and came up with this:

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“Can language be ‘used’ in a way that is not primarily communication, poetry, or logical, yet inhabit a physical existence apart from a conceptual one?” Maybe/maybe not, but I hope Jurisich keeps trying, because this is poetry to me.

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Links:

• Jurisich’s Blog

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