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"BrickBrickBrick" is background reading brought to the forefront.
With this new collection, poet Mark Laliberte presents a series of visual meditations on the subject of "assembly poetics." Like much of his recent output, this project hovers around - but never quite steps into - the cultural zone that pure, popular comics inhabit.
The hybrid "texts" presented in this volume (slowly developed from 2001-08), appropriate and invade the hand-made illustrative markings of different illustrators or cartoonists, as they draw bricks - usually in the backgrounds of city scenes. Each drawn source is pulled forward and stripped of all signs of their original narrative intent. In a process that is metaphorically connected to the careful manipulation of written words on a page, each work is digitally constructed - brick-by-brick - into new and distinct walls that the reader will likely enjoy hitting up against.
About the author
MARK LALIBERTE is a practicing writer/visual artist/designer/soundmaker/curator/multi-headed hydra who has exhibited & performed extensively in galleries across Canada & the USA. Laliberte has had pageworks, poems & other printed experiments appear in publications big & small, including:
Carousel, Descant, Lantern, Misunderstandings, Other Cl/utter, Pilot, Prairie Fire, Prefix Photo, Rampike, subTerrain, Vallum. He created the experimental comic,
Take Away Its Wings and Force It to Fly.
