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Leftwich, Jim

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1956-

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

myesis (Vol.2), 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-45695-47903
Scope and Contents

myesis signifies layers and stages of fragmentation. Chapters or sections as fragments of the book; paragraphs as fragments of chapters; sentences as fragments of the paragraphs; phrases as fragments of the sentences; words as fragments of the phrases; letters as fragments of the words. I read the empty spaces. Myesis is an excessive, minimalist writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[To Open], 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-39582-41541
Scope and Contents

The images are reproductions of ink stampings from medicine bottle tops. The text appears in reverse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Visual Poetry Collaboration. No.4, 2002

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-39778-41741
Scope and Contents

Leftwich formed the letters with charcoal frottage, Altemus with rubberstamping. Stored in Reed Altemus portfolio box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Visual Poetry Collaboration. No.5, 2002

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-39779-41742
Scope and Contents

Leftwich formed the letters with charcoal frottage, Altemus with xerox images. Stored in Reed Altemus portfolio box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Visual Poetry Collaboration. No.6, 2002

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-39780-41743
Scope and Contents

Leftwich formed his contribution with scanned crumpled texts, Altemus with computer generated text. Stored in Reed Altemus portfolio box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Visual Writing, 2004

 Item — Box 307: [Barcode: 31858073143616]
Identifier: CC-43594-45672
Scope and Contents

Each participant in this mail art project was given a photograph of the same young woman with the lower half of her face concealed by a mask. They were free to modify it but could not remove the mask. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004