Multidisciplinary Artist and Writer (MAW)
My name is Lesley Ann Fogle. LAFogle [lah fō gull] is my writing signature. LA means the in several Romance languages and is the 6th tone of the major scale. Fogle means bird in German; it migrated from Vogel to Vogler to Vogle to Fogle. I use a lot of bird imagery and am a practiced whistler.
MAL VU
I print-pressed the waywith sun, a collection of poems and story excerpts, and Proof of Ear-lier Existence, a selection of 35 poems made into songs by my former Chicago-based music collective, Mal VU. Mal VU started in 1998. I worked in a jingle house and spent after-hours experimenting with noncommercial mixing techniques, exploring songwriting styles with musicians, and producing six Mal Vu albums of material gleaned from living the therapeutic arts. Mal VU means badly seen as well as bad volume unit.
AFTER-DEATH PLAN
One of my characters drew up detailed after-death plans, a sort of ironclad will and insurance policy for the afterlife. Naturally, we named the next musical project After-Death Plan. The 2017 album Literature featured songs about books and authors from Dostoevsky to Jung to Bukowski. The 2019 album, Psycho Social Sexual, includes a title track that channels the articulate, defined nature of lexical rage in a world which rewards the limiting of language with a causality of inclusiveness.
As fans of art cinema, we produced music videos and continue to grow in the visual medium. We’re sitting on two albums of material as it became a lot to put ourselves “out there.” The third album is Bread and Circuses and the next is Uncle Tell. However, packaging art in a music scene is not as much fun as one might think. Despite repeat unsolicited advice to stick to a narrower brand, I am satisfied to create music with a rich range of themes, styles, and vocabulary.
WRITE ON
I explore writing styles. Mostly I’ve been chipping away at two main books. Some characters started from identifying emotions roving about in my young brain. As I grew to understand my heightened capacity to experience the world is a gift if I channel it, so grew the characters and their logical environments.
Language is a playground for intensities,
whereas the idle mind to an avid learner is a row of portable toilets sweltering on a hot summer day on an incline by a stagnant swamp.
My work plays hard, using arrangement and lingual dovetailing to reveal bigger ideas that connect across consciousness and environment. It neither slows down nor adapts to a larger demographic.
