poetry and surgery
I make no secret of the fact that writing is difficult for me. It's a broken, staccato, stumble, across letters, words, and symbols. Sentences cut short tersely from the sheer exhaustion of pulling them from the murk and mire in me. A wounded misadventure that ends with me in a heap.
For a long time, I used the cut-up technique to write things. Sometimes the words are so hard to get to they require surgery, and I learned to write poetry with razor blades.
In the process I found my way to collage and discovered that I could say more than than I ever could with words.
But, recently
wrote a post about the cut-up method of poetry. It reminded me of how it all started. Of where I came from. And, it made me think that it might be worth revisiting. That it might be worth asking if this method could still have a place in the current work I'm doing.Whether or not it works, I'm not sure. It was more difficult than I expected it to be. I seemed to have lost the fluency and fluidity I had once attained, but here's what I came up with. Let me know what you think.
the new look of bright screen images in a small room
a mystery suddenly intent on burning
people gather in wonder
the few fragments of restraint had fallen with fire
P.S. ICAD 122 - 124
P.P.S. - A few new composition sketches:
Fantastic post! My work often has elements of cut-up technique but without the literal cut-up. The words are plucked either from print sources or from some snapshot of the subconscious. And then on the surface of a drawing they are free to form their own order and meaning(s) to me and who ever else might see them.
It’s a powerful technique that I’d say you are adept at.
I would say that everything I’ve read of your’s has been wonderfully both lyrical and human. But I also understand the ways of self doubt too well and that the praise of others can often do little to speak to the loud inner critic.
Thanks for taking the time and energy to work and play with words. I love artists that reveal their process in their own act of discovering their process.
I think your words are great and a perfect compliment to the images