Irene Koronas
“1°,” “2°,” “3°,” “4°”
excerpts from Chiaroscuros
Volume VIII, The Grammaton Series
1°
The idiom horns
gesso the end of a line
a domain poureta
From residue it returns
language to neoochre
the surface picmodi
No grit grooves
the stub on the iron
oxide palette
The shields against evil
Bomvi, hematite
or iron ore
on a veil
on a mask restituée
persist as a parish
in misprision
or riss
in adequation
This steepwrink
secretes a scape
2°
Mauveine the parasite
divide. The canvas lingo
from lemmata to parerga
from exergues to cartouche
links a contextual graft
The pigment ural
undertones by parergon
puts in place the cerne
attempts to decrypt
the phonic polylogue
n + voice
voice + van gogh shoes
overlap and chart
spidery black codes
with hot lapis between
the out and in
on virgin index cards
The appearance
bevels the question
what is art
The cultural plot
in retroscene and rhetoric
that overdetermines history
A hysterical edifice
to articulate
the neobaize
or those saturate scarlet
filigrees smear x + q
3°
The syntagm (etymon)
(un et nu). Polysemy
in tekhne hidden
behind multiplicity (art)
Opticks. Encoding the social
strata a russet confine
and a scarlet silt (wine dark)
melas (black) erythros (red)
pace divides the spectrum
in five slices of tricky pigment
in third terms (bluck)
(teleology) (sage) (dichtung)
(sprache) (nennen)
A (prime) circle changes
tochistes (gongorism)
(euphuism). Philos
detaches definition (hue)
Hues affright whiteness
the bisected symcolor
the eponymous albino
White has otherness
and it sluds the mix (murk)
Zinc oxide (or titanium)
accelerate rhythm
Still in a circle an internal
border. By invagination
the point then departs (telos)
encircles necessity
and traces itself around a gast
a ternary circulation
a somnambulist chirico
an arp watch shapes
between thick opaque
crystalline structures
Verdigris’ long sieve
dictates the unconscious
A conscious palladio
fetches the flat lead
form. Paddies redangle
4°
An azurite skeleton
is plastered ceruse
(white lead)
(red lead)
mixed with vinegar
The tomb remains fresh
A lemmatic corpse
in its own gauze
a backward bone
a fecund sinew
a naïve urn
the mortis leap
into a terracotta glaze
Lucifers sulfuric wings
polyconvulse in sateen
and lampas
postface the lesser
metaphysics
beyond callistics
the frame hangs
the ruption
the false avant-gardist
the abstract alter
explosive
in its static flux
Irene Koronas is an extreme experimentalist. Her The Grammaton Series includes gnōstos, Volume VII (BlazeVOX, 2023), siphonic, Volume VI (BlazeVOX, 2022), lithic cornea, Volume V (BlazeVOX, 2021), holyrit, Volume IV (BlazeVOX, 2019), declivities, Volume III (BlazeVOX, 2018), ninth iota, Volume II (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018) and Codify, Volume I (Éditions du Cygne, 2017).