The Mailart and the Dr. Zoidberg Snowflakes

Geof Huth:

At the beginning of this month, I sent out from Silver Spring, Maryland, a set of mailart cards to a group of people, one of whom was the mailartist Ficus strangulensis.

Once this card was in Fike’s clutches, he scanned it and ran parts of it through a kaleidoscoping software system to create wonderful little snowflakes out of my word and wrawing. I’m not sure exactly what Fike did, since his entire explanation was that he “messed with” the images he scanned, but the multi-reflecting parts are quite entrancing. This first attempt maintains much of the feel of my writing, but changes my work into a self-reflecting piece of renewed power. I keep looking at the central figure in this piece and seeing a curvaceous female squid, maybe a possible mate for Dr Zoidberg.

Sounds similar to some conversations I've been having recently with a poet hard at work on something that needs to be seen like a Victoria Sponge, not as a Madeira cake.