bio :
(Avezzano, Italy, 1977)
She graduated in Contemporary Art in Rome. After working as an exhibition curator, she turned to teaching Literature. Since 2012, she has explored the strictly manual dimension of writing by practicing various forms of illegible script. Executed primarily on small-format paper, her works capture the oscillations of the hand, embodying an expressive urgency liberated from semantic constraints.
Lioconcha hieroglyphica is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.
The shell of Lioconcha hieroglyphica reaches a maximum length of about 42 mm. The shape of the shell is trigonal with a truncated posterior. The anterodorsal margin is acutely rounded. The linule is elongated and heart-shaped. It has tan to dark brown rod-like and angular markings, often with the appearance of cuneiform or hieroglyphs. The markings may be the result of a diffusion-mediated chemical cellular automaton, like Conus textile's
Karla Van Vliet is a poet, artist and Integrative Dreamwork analyst. Her newest books are She Speaks in Tongues (Anhinga Press,) a collection of poems and asemic writings, and Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings (Shanti Arts.) She is a Forward Prize, a three-time Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net, nominee. Her poems have appeared in Acumen, Poet Lore, Green Mountains Review, Crannog Magazine and others. Her paintings have been featured in Women Asemic Writers, UTSANGA.IT, Still Point Art Quarterly, Stone Voices Magazine, Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, and Gate Posts with No Gate: The Leg Paint Project, as well as WAAVe Global Gallery: Women Asemic Artists and Visual Poets 2021, and GRAPHOS - International Sample of Asemical Writing. You can find out more about her work in interviews at The Journal of Radical Wonder, GAS: Poetry Art and Music, and Naokofujimoto’s Working on Gallery. She is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal, and founder of Van Vliet Gallery.
