Recto & Verso: A Work of Asemism and Pareidolia

Recto & Verso: A Work of Asemism and Pareidolia is the one title in Dominic Ward's JEF shelf that is not a novel. It is a full-color collection of asemic and pareidolic images, co-authored with Eckhard Gerdes, and the press classifies it as an art and literary work rather than fiction. Asemic writing is mark-making that has the shape of script without fixed meaning; pareidolia is the mind's habit of finding faces and figures in random pattern. The book lives in the seam between the two.

Ward is an Australian novelist and visual artist based in Esk, Queensland. His JEF novels are Prism and Graded Monotony and The Hunter; Recto & Verso is where his visual practice runs in parallel to the prose.