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So, what do we call these: ekphrastic paintings? Usually ekphrasis is applied to texts that take after works of visual art, but according to this Wikepedia definition, it can be the other way around (i.e. a painting of a literary heroine, or even a painting of a sculpture). Here, though, the poems are included in the paintings that interpret them.
My friend Allen Sutterfield has a nice term, "text-visuals". His own "T-V series" consists of hundreds of poems paired with visual images that play off them in some way -- mostly magazine cut-outs, collages, photographs.
Whatever they be, I'd like to do a series of eight or ten, maybe put on a show somewhere. Or have them on display at a reading.
Beyond that, I have no painterly aspirations. With a bare minimum of technique, all I bring is raw sensibility to the canvas. But there you are.
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2 comments:
I think that's pretty awesome. And I love the poem. There are few 'fixes' so expensive, either. haha
Thanks, Kieth. Looking at the painting now, the image seems so strong I wonder if the text isn't a sort of intrusion -- that it couldn't go under a painting, rather than be a part of it. Oh well. In the other paintings, the texts are better integrated into the composition. All part of the journey.
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