5 posts tagged “poetry”
I take pictures on the fly and post them online as I go. I'm playing with the dynamics of text and image. Some of the image/text things are little jokes, some are simple moments of beauty, some are intersections between me and the world, my noting the beauty that sustains me.
Already there are picture series that are more than just snapshots or singular moments, but actually making text-and-image poems as a means of negotiating the complexities of daily life.
You can follow - visit --- on the fly
The video documenting our performance at the Brixen Ivey Theatre in Wrigleyville (that's in or around the area of Wrigley Field for those of you not in the know) is far too large for me to load to Vox. It's living at my website, www.drawclose.com, which I happened to have redesigned this week.
Its been a busy year for me so far. I've finally sorted my work by content, instead of media, which is important to me: while most audience members latch on to art by its physicality (Do you make paintings? What thing do you produce?) and the market needs classifiable objects in order to function as a marketplace (What kind of paintings do you make?) the reality of what I'm doing is something totally separate from the resulting object that viewers take in.
I'm examining the stories humans tell themselves and others, the stories that we think make life easier but sometimes create more complications. The nature of evil, how we contribute to our own suffering, our natural blindness to our spiritual anatomy. That sort of thing.
But, people miss the latent content most of the time. So they'll have to be satisfied - and probably will be satisfied - knowing that I write poems and make videos ...
Flip the Script, by the way, is a multimedia project that presents the transformation from argument to reconciliation. Choreographer Stephanie Thiel conceived the piece after seeing the documentary Invisible Children, about child-soldiers in the Sudan. When she got in touch with me, she had the audio produced (by Herman Pearl, a.k.a. DJ Soy Sauce) and half of the dance choreographed. It was my job to discover images that echoed and amplified the gestures written into the dance and create a projection that defined the dancer's floor space and set the mood for the piece.
Have a look! drawclose.com/manual5.html
Dog Eat Dog
i put that bit through the meat grinder
he's a little gristly but
the marinade will tenderize
i saved the thigh bones
to stir the soup with
don't worry i cut out the asshole
we deal with enough of that
in the regular world
don't need to eat it, too
no no sweetie put the
marrow in the soup stock
just crack the long bones
and drain out the deep red
he was an alcoholic
i found him at Pat's Tap
don't worry
his last drunk will cook off
i did discard his liver
it was a little large and
on the rubbery side
i was thinkin' of you, too,
i know you're a little gouty
and all that liver would just make it worse
pour me a bloody mary, would you, doll?
though i should call it a bloody mark by all rights
this steak is going to be just lovely
the stew, too
just lovely
