"Seeing comes before words"
- John Berger
“Visual artists must use words to
accompany their work in the form of bios, statements and titles, not to mention
presentations. And those words are
deceptively important to the success or failure of their works” – Jennifer Garza-Cuen
"A writer continually struggles for
clarity against the language he’s using or, more
accurately, against the common usage of that language. He doesn’t see language
with the readability and clarity of something printed out. He sees it, rather
as a terrain full of illegibilities, hidden paths, impasses, surprises, and
obscurities." – John Berger
"I know of no other visual Western
artist who has created an oeuvre that visualizes with living colors the silent
space that exists between and around words. Cy Twombly is the painterly master
of verbal silence." – John Berger 2002
"Ligon is a conceptual artist who is
known for his large-scale paintings. In his series How
it Feels to Be Colored Me, he uses
texts about his identity as an African-American man laying them on top of one
another until they blurred into ambiguity." - Risdworkworks.wordpress.com
Claudia Rankine used this image in her most recent book Citizen as part of her discussion of race:
"Tracey Emin is known for her
notoriously candid drawings revealing some of her deepest personal reflections
on her relationships. Often graphically sexual, her work is filled with
witty autobiographical comments. Additionally, Emin has completed a series of
neon phrases; some lengthly and thoughtful while others delve into intimacy in
just a few words." - Risdwordworks.wordpress.com
"Extended Captions" are works that combine prose and image:
In that place there is for knowing he knew he was not yet a man, but he didn’t feel it. He could recite enough life for twenty lifetimes and he knew where the exits were in the dark. Every Wednesday at 7pm she came. And every Wednesday at 7:05 she bought a small popcorn and a large soda. It didn’t matter that she looked right through him. It didn’t matter that she didn’t notice him noticing. It just didn’t matter. In that place there is for knowing he knew it was just a matter of time. And he was patient.
Jennifer Garza-Cuen – MFA Photo 2011
Modern ekphrastic poems have generally shrugged off
antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description, and instead have tried to
interpret, inhabit, confront, and speak to their subjects.
The Great Figure
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
William Carlos Williams
To challenge yourself to respond to art, see Rattle's monthly ekphrastic challenge: http://www.rattle.com/poetry/extras/ekphrasis/
Letterpress Broadsides:
Letterpress Broadsides:
A fascinating study is how Emily Dickinson possibly used the medium of paper as a shaper of form for her poems:
I learned so much about my own poem by collaborating with Andy Cline of Roundwood Furniture in King's Beach:
My writing process has taken advantage of drawing to explore deeper into a poem in progress:
I've also used paper itself as a medium to move words, lines, and language around into varying juxtapositions in my revision process:
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