Open Book in Ways of Water

In Open Book in Ways of Water, poet and artist Adam Wolfond explores the synaesthetic quality of autistic perception, the way in which water in its different materializations shapes and channels language. Building on notions such as "wetness," "streams," and "currents," Wolfond constructs a linguistic universe in which writing and perception merge, move, and "place together" - echoing both the togetherness of the senses and the gathering rhythms of water. Open Book in Ways of Water is as much a book of poetry and a book about poetry, a self-reflection in an endlessly moving and transforming element. 

Language is a way to understand each other but it is also reductive in the ways that it is abstracted and non-sensuous, and open writing as movement tends to be ignored as autistics are forced into neurotypical ways of seeing, and the thinking around artistic practices feels of a pace that intensifies the use of forms forming, and similarities with open processes are languaging the way of water, making language about artful relations with the more than human.

Author
Adam Wolfond

Publisher
Punctum Books

Publication date
2023

Binding
Softcover

Size
5.5 x 8.5 inches
93 pages

Language
English

About the Author
Adam Wolfond is a non-speaking autistic writer and artist. His work includes public speaking by typing, creative writing, poetry, podcast, and several art exhibitions where he focuses on movement, water, and relation.

ISBN
978-1-68571-138-2