Follow Up Post about Asemic Writing in the Classroom
I thought I'd follow up my post on Asemic Writing in the Classroom with some images of some of the work. (I am now fully aware that I was not using Asemic Writing, but some of the work ends up being Asemic after all)
Today we pulled our first group of prints with a small group of special needs students. Here's what they had to offer:
These are really beautiful. And yeah, this is what I think I was getting at. There may be a substitution-code logic going on in the creation of these, but there is no way I can decode the works as presented. Nor do I think they invite me to decode them. So I think they end up being asemic (at least in reception) by default. And I REALLY like them. They are inspiring. (Oh and look, just in time for the weekend when I can let the inspiration produce work.)
I hope your students were really proud of their work.
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These are really beautiful. And yeah, this is what I think I was getting at. There may be a substitution-code logic going on in the creation of these, but there is no way I can decode the works as presented. Nor do I think they invite me to decode them. So I think they end up being asemic (at least in reception) by default. And I REALLY like them. They are inspiring. (Oh and look, just in time for the weekend when I can let the inspiration produce work.)
ReplyDeleteI hope your students were really proud of their work.
but why are they hot pink?
ReplyDeleteThey are printed on Red constuction paper. It looks red on all the computers I've seen these images on.
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