Sun March 25th [ 2 hrs]: poetry, thesis paper
"creating experience" "mapping cognition"
Reading my feedback from meeting with Megan
-Flip sentence structure
Talk more about influences- how it has affected my work
Not just visual artists, but poets as well
More about Julie CHen
Don't try to make the conclusion universal, this is a very personal piece and it doesn't have to apply to everyone.
Rewrite conclusion.
Poets to review:
Still Life On A Matchbox Lid
The heart is colder then the eye is.
The watchers, the holy ones,
know this, no shortcut to the sky,
A single dog hair can split the wind.
If you want great tranquility,
it's hard work and a long walk.
Don't brood on the past.
The world is without appendages,
no message, no name.
The watchers, the holy ones,
know this, no shortcut to the sky,
A single dog hair can split the wind.
If you want great tranquility,
it's hard work and a long walk.
Don't brood on the past.
The world is without appendages,
no message, no name.
Charles Wright
(His overall poem structure relates to my own, it is fragmented. Many of his poems are a mixture of a detailed sensory landscape and pieces of stories.)
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year’s horses
Blaze up into golden stones.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.
James Wright
(This one has an unexpected ending)
As Planned
After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called
La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that
is all you know words not their feelings
or what they mean and you write because
you know them not because you understand them
because you don't you are stupid and lazy
and will never be great but you do
what you know because what else is there?
Frank O'Hara
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called
La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that
is all you know words not their feelings
or what they mean and you write because
you know them not because you understand them
because you don't you are stupid and lazy
and will never be great but you do
what you know because what else is there?
Frank O'Hara
(Everyone knows Frank O'Hara by his Poem (Lana Turner has Collapsed!) and it is clear to see his signature structure is very much like a stream of consciousness writing. My favorite contemporary poet David Lehman writes in his style as well. These poems work well in a single page because they flow so rapidly.)
January 31 (The sky is crumbling...)
The sky is crumbling into millions of paper dots
the wind blows in my face
so I duck into my favorite barber shop
and listen to Vivaldi and look in the mirror
reflecting the shopfront windows, Broadway
and 104th, and watch the dots blown by the wind
blow into the faces of the walkers outside
& here comes a thin old man swaddled in scarves,
he must be seventy-five, walking slowly,
and in his mind there is a young man dancing,
maybe seventeen years old, on a June evening --
he is that young man, I can tell, watching him walk
the wind blows in my face
so I duck into my favorite barber shop
and listen to Vivaldi and look in the mirror
reflecting the shopfront windows, Broadway
and 104th, and watch the dots blown by the wind
blow into the faces of the walkers outside
& here comes a thin old man swaddled in scarves,
he must be seventy-five, walking slowly,
and in his mind there is a young man dancing,
maybe seventeen years old, on a June evening --
he is that young man, I can tell, watching him walk
David Lehman
My Friend Tree
My friend tree
I sawed you down
but I must attend
an older friend
the sun
I sawed you down
but I must attend
an older friend
the sun
Lorine Niedecker
Monday March 26th: [2 hrs] Writing poetry and researching poets and woodblock techniques to include in my thesis paper.
Tuesday March 27th: [6 hrs] Finalizing designs to show for small crit on Thursday
Wednesday March 28th : [4 hrs] Printing out designs on digital printers. Figured out how to get the front and back spread registration exact. WoooHOO. As I printed I found a few typos which is a plus. I printed all night with the woodblocks. Slippage and mistakes, the stencils made of paper broke so I need a different material to make them out of like mylar or tyvek.
Thursday March 29th : [8 hrs] Small group critique. Agreement that the imagery isn't as compelling as the poetry. I need to make every move count when the books are sparse. Whisper, barely there. Use color in text to pull the books together, visual cues. Met with Mark Neilsen. He said I should use a display case and that they have tables and chairs I could use. Hannah and Kyle sat down with me for an indepth critique on the poetry, which was very helpful. Revising spreads and poetry to send to Megan Levad.
Friday 30th March: [2.5 hrs] Revising spreads, printing and leaving in Hannah's mailbox.
Monday March 26th: [2 hrs] Writing poetry and researching poets and woodblock techniques to include in my thesis paper.
Tuesday March 27th: [6 hrs] Finalizing designs to show for small crit on Thursday
Wednesday March 28th : [4 hrs] Printing out designs on digital printers. Figured out how to get the front and back spread registration exact. WoooHOO. As I printed I found a few typos which is a plus. I printed all night with the woodblocks. Slippage and mistakes, the stencils made of paper broke so I need a different material to make them out of like mylar or tyvek.
Thursday March 29th : [8 hrs] Small group critique. Agreement that the imagery isn't as compelling as the poetry. I need to make every move count when the books are sparse. Whisper, barely there. Use color in text to pull the books together, visual cues. Met with Mark Neilsen. He said I should use a display case and that they have tables and chairs I could use. Hannah and Kyle sat down with me for an indepth critique on the poetry, which was very helpful. Revising spreads and poetry to send to Megan Levad.
Friday 30th March: [2.5 hrs] Revising spreads, printing and leaving in Hannah's mailbox.
What to do
Prototypes to leave with curators. Fill out forms. Write thesis paper. Print and revise. Buy thread to bind books. Perhaps experiment with thin papers in the spreads to play off of revealing and concealing information, or partial information. Fragments.
What I discovered
No one answers email. I need to experiment more with imagery.
