Larkin Higgins
Logographic Drawing on Paper
Logographic Drawing in Sky
Logographic Drawing on Birch
Larkin Higgins is a poet/artist/professor whose poetic and hybrid pieces can be found in Diagram, Eleven Eleven, Yellow Field, Visio-Textual Selectricity (Runaway Spoon Press), The L.A. Telephone Book, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and elsewhere. Mindmade Books published Of Traverse and Template (poems and logographic drawings). With Dusie Kollektiv she has two chapbooks, Of Materials, Implements and c o m b - i n g m i n e - i n g s, plus the broadside “Soil Culture, Frankenstein—Grafted.” Higgins’ visual poetry is included in the Avant Writing Collection/The Ohio State University Libraries and has been exhibited at Counterpath Gallery (Denver, CO, USA), Skylab Gallery (Columbus, OH, USA), Otis College of Art & Design, New Puppy Gallery (Los Angeles), and others. Additionally, she has created artist books and also text-driven performance art for venues such as Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica, CA, USA), Counterpath Gallery (Denver, CO), BC Space (Laguna Beach, CA, USA), and Beyond Baroque (Venice, CA, USA).
She writes: "Since about 2012, I have been using traffic investigator logograms (visual symbols representing words or phrases) to make hand-drawn logographic works with pencil.
"Traffic investigator logograms, such as the type police officers use to describe/diagram accidents, can record supposed movement (and stoppages) by their traced shapes from a plastic template—a logographic system. In my usage of the templates, I hand draw with pencil these symbols onto to paper or wood panel while arranging this visual language into creative forms. Each sign “represents” a word or phrase such as: signal, abutment or wall, intersection, out of control, light, overturning [overturned is a very different logogram than overturning]. Language, such an exquisitely malleable medium."
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Logographic Drawing on Paper
Logographic Drawing in Sky
toward forward Seacoast for ragged prospector. Strange things emanate from sun-soaked asphalt. Cinematic shielding. Contour, imaginary line on earth’s surface and curvature of the face. You must move to arrive. M.D. denotes Map Distance, a degree quite different. Jaunts, junkets, gallivanting, wanderings. Toward forward as in gliding into an embrace. These rubbery filaments, attachments. Shadow shading as shapes. Tenuous strands. To travel the length. Tangent, detour. As the path of a moving point. Thought, underscore, confluence. On account of guardrails, long plummet averted. And there, a wide grassy expanse. |
Logographic Drawing on Birch
Larkin Higgins is a poet/artist/professor whose poetic and hybrid pieces can be found in Diagram, Eleven Eleven, Yellow Field, Visio-Textual Selectricity (Runaway Spoon Press), The L.A. Telephone Book, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and elsewhere. Mindmade Books published Of Traverse and Template (poems and logographic drawings). With Dusie Kollektiv she has two chapbooks, Of Materials, Implements and c o m b - i n g m i n e - i n g s, plus the broadside “Soil Culture, Frankenstein—Grafted.” Higgins’ visual poetry is included in the Avant Writing Collection/The Ohio State University Libraries and has been exhibited at Counterpath Gallery (Denver, CO, USA), Skylab Gallery (Columbus, OH, USA), Otis College of Art & Design, New Puppy Gallery (Los Angeles), and others. Additionally, she has created artist books and also text-driven performance art for venues such as Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica, CA, USA), Counterpath Gallery (Denver, CO), BC Space (Laguna Beach, CA, USA), and Beyond Baroque (Venice, CA, USA).
She writes: "Since about 2012, I have been using traffic investigator logograms (visual symbols representing words or phrases) to make hand-drawn logographic works with pencil.
"Traffic investigator logograms, such as the type police officers use to describe/diagram accidents, can record supposed movement (and stoppages) by their traced shapes from a plastic template—a logographic system. In my usage of the templates, I hand draw with pencil these symbols onto to paper or wood panel while arranging this visual language into creative forms. Each sign “represents” a word or phrase such as: signal, abutment or wall, intersection, out of control, light, overturning [overturned is a very different logogram than overturning]. Language, such an exquisitely malleable medium."
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