The above is partly an asemic document and partly a Fluxus Laboratories experimental artifact.
I have a pile of old papers such as the above that I have collected for use as collage material. This one, dated Oct 1, 1926 is a letter asking for payment of work done from Baker Perkins LTD Engineers.
At the beginning of the year I decided that, instead of putting my coffee stirring spoon on a saucer plate, I would use this sheet of paper as a blotter to rest my spoon and let the staining gradually accumulate both front and back with the eventual intention of using it for some asemic writing.
This sheet was used as a blotter for 90 days from the start of January, 2026 to the end of March, 2026. Let’s call it Stain Test #01 - 2026.
At the end of the 90 days I then over wrote the business text of the letter with a more elegant asemic text with a fountain pen.
Such a cool effect! As artists, I love how the mind will look at the 'ordinary' and do something spectacular with it. I've loved looking at the ground for weird found junk since I was a kid. My mother did too as she found a cold bracelet one time. I love the old, broken, tarnished, rusty, patina'd junk.