Title | Blueprints |
Artist / Creator | Andrew Topel |
Press Name | Avantacular Press |
Place of Publication | Orange City, Florida |
Publication Date | 2012 |
Subject | Architecture, Concrete Poetry, Visual Poetry |
Process / Technique | Laser printing on translucent paper |
Image Process | Visual poems composed in Microsoft Publisher |
Structure / Binding | Loose sheets in 9” x 12” blue envelope |
Paper Stock | Translucent paper |
Number of Pages | 19 pages |
Dimensions (WxHxD) | 8.5 x 11 inches |
Edition Size | Open Edition |
Signed & Numbered | Unsigned |
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Blueprints is a series of visual poems based on architecture. They attempt to expand off of the flat page by creating three-dimensional textual structures.
Andrew Topel's blueprints demonstrate a brilliant scaffolding of thought and language. The words are more than words: they are supports and wings and evidence of artistic power. Their many variations, emanations live beyond themselves. They lift with eyelight into a distance that they help devise. Topel's architextures offer the concrete bounty of their wholeness, while singing affirmations of each tiny increment of stroke. Their vibrant motion elicits with immediacy, infinity. One feels and sees from up close and from far away to find a world. Andrew Topel's visual poetry is the best argument we have for celebrating the alphabet.
Artist Bio
to·pel Pronunciation: 'toe-pell Function: verb Inflected Form(s): to·pel·inzki /-p(&-)el[ki]/ Etymology: from the mind of God, from the womb of Topel,Sharon, 1977 Intransitive verb : to form poetry or as if from language robed in Swahili Transitive verb 1 : to cause a deep rumble trapped in whispers 2 : to make compositions made of letters, music or thoughts (as paper, cloth, wood) glued on a surface of linguistic texture