Human Cosmos, poem by Allen Fisher
- Here, the exuberant collusion of writing and drawing is nowhere more apparent than in The Night (2010, poem by Georg Taki), Colours (2012, poem by Angeline Yap), the dense, sinuous Human Cosmos (2012, poem by Allen Fisher), and Seismograph Jitter (2011, poem by David Annwn), in which the seeming invincibility of the black lines is toned by the improvisational qualities of the sketchbook and graffiti writing. The abundant vitality of drawing radiates majestically from these pages, though we have no difficulty recognizing the forms as letters, words, sentences, now unfettered by the organizational orders of baseline and margin — it is imagery, rather, whose “meaning” derives, at least in part, from its connection to language, as other kinds of images in art may derive from their connections to the world’s fundamental forms, figure, say, or landscape. Elsewhere — in Ma/Rarus (2011), a collage, or sheets from the Dante and Federico García Lorca projects — Ingmire shows his willingness to transgress the boundaries of painting, as well, acting as a colorist and painter whose foundational motif is always linguistic.
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