Daily Poetics

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we've been expecting you

Link: we've been expecting you.

‘Photos With MEaning’ at pearlfisher gallery

Pearlfisher has turned the spotlight on itself for this month’s exhibition with each Pearlfisher team member providing a favourite photograph they own.  Each photograph is supplemented by a short description to tell the story behind the still and to explain ‘why this has ME’aning’.

Link: Nadine Jarvis | projects.

"Carbon Copies Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind."

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. -oscar wilde

Link: reVerse > re_ > an intersection of poets, songwriters, spoken word and music.

"The story of reVerse In November 2001, I decided to create a poetry and music compilation CD that was artistic, enjoyable, high quality and ultimately very listenable. Thinking of the alternative music CD series from the late 80s called "Just Say Yes", I thought that a poetry and music CD might help bring some much-needed attention to the 'alternative' art forms of poetry and songwriting. I asked Richard Fammerée to help with the project and reVerse was born. As life-long fans of poetry, we knew creating such a compilation would be difficult. More often than not, the beauty of poetry does not translate in recordings of poetry. However, this challenge was what we most relished. And, as Executive Director of the Poetry Center, I wanted to create an example of how board members of The Poetry Center and other poets and supporters could include The Poetry Center as the charitable cause of their side poetry projects, literary magazines and etc.

n early 2002 I secured an investor for the project, and we started to approach artists who represented a range of styles and artistic accomplishment. We believed that featuring a range of emerging and established poets and musicians was of utmost importance to achieve our goals. With the exception of finding an accomplished musician with a weakness for poetry to contribute a performance of an original poem, the artists roster was complete by the end of the year ...

... We hope that you will buy a copy of reVerse. It has integrity and it is entertaining. It might be a little dark at times, but it is delightfully light-hearted at others. All the moments are beautiful. " -- KC Clarke

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors -thomas macaulay

Link: Charles Patrick American Painter.

Color Poems

"Color Poems are performance art works that were filmed by the National Endowment for the Arts through a special projects grant in 1980. Artist Charles Patrick performed and exhibited these art works at galleries, museums and universities in the United States and Europe, (See listing in Who's Who in American Art). Performances with Color Poems are talks given by the artist, based on his conceptual paintings and poetry. Through activities performed by the artist, the audience members participate by expressing their feelings and thoughts concerning the paintings presented. The activities themselves encourage creative expression by allowing each individual to express his or her own interpretation of the color compositions presented, and to experience individually, and as a group, the feeling that takes place in the writing of poetry."

George Brecht

Link: George Brecht: Táncok, események, feladványok.

"Poems"

Symphony No. 5

I. before hearing

II. hearing

III. after hearing

The Game of Definitions

The first player writes, on a slip of paper, "What is _____" and he completes the sentence. The second player, without seeing what the other has written, writes "It is _____" and completes his sentence. The two players then read their sentences in order, making any necessary grammatical adjustments.     For example (played by Donna Jo Jones and George Brecht)     What is a factory? It is the manner in which George Washington's men rowed him across the Delaware.     What is well dressed? It is the space between the top of the water and the bottom of the bridge.     What is an answer? It is five ice-cubes melting.     What is a question? It is a method for drying wet matches between the toes.     What is whortleberry? It is smoking under water while sexually excited.

George Brecht

Link: George Brecht: Táncok, események, feladványok.

3 Answer to Ben Who Asked Me What Was Important

Exercices 3 and 4.

Consider something "important". Call what is not "important" "unimportant".

3. Take something which is "unimportant" and find a way to consider it "important", adding it to what is already "important". Continue in this way until there is no more "unimportant".

4. Take something which is "important" and find a way to consider it "unimportant", adding it to what is already "unimportant".

Continue in this way until there is no more "unimportant".

Yet we do not want to go on to the next poem, but rather return to the beginning:

Link: On William Bronk's Poetry.

What We Are What we are?

We say we want to become what we are or
what we have an intent to be.
We read the possibilities, or try.
We get to some.
We think we know how to read.
We recognize a word, here and there,
a syllable: male, it says perhaps,
or female, talent -- look what you could do --
or love, it says, love is what we mean.
Being at any cost: in the end, the cost
is terrible but so is the lure to us.
We see it move and shine and swallow it.
We say we are and this is what we are as to say we should be
and this is what to be and this is how. But, oh, it isn’t so.
-William Bronk

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him -emerson

Link: Vetri International Glass — JEFF CRANDALL.

Jeff Crandall began his career as a poet, and became actively involved in glass art while working as a grant writer at the Pilchuck Glass School. He now works in Seattle, as both a nationally recognized poet and an accomplished glass artist. His Poet's Bottles beautifully represent his abilities in writing and in glass.

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Be- and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent. - rilke

Link: Manifesto - Asylum Collection - By Bo Reudler and Seroj de Graaf.

Manifesto Asylum

"The world grows darker Home becomes an asylum A space to dream Survival in a fancy world Winter-sleep with summer-dreams Minimalism doesn’t satisfy any longer It has stripped products to the bone Core became law One lost something dear: Personal fantasy As watching the clouds floating by Create your own vision Everything is possible As in a dream The ‘Asylum Collection’ Dresses the skeletons Left by minimalism Colors the world With multiform products We are subservient To the experience."

L' Illustre Lustre

"A flat chandelier made from a sheet of plexiglass. Modern CNC 3D milling techniques have been used to decorate it with forms derived from the diamond shapes of classic chandeliers. Fibreglass wires are used for suspension and illumination. The resulting effect is reminiscent of a shower of chandelier diamonds"

...winged hope, with heart of fire, to gain the bliss of thy desire. -william winter

Link: raumgestalt.

Pencil for winged words

The Pencil for winged words lets your inspiration run wild –

pencil with a wing-shaped felt sleeve.

be like the flower, turn your face towards the sun ...

Link: raumgestalt."Pointer Flower Proudly it stands there, the Pointer Flower, and shows us the way with the messages on its leaves, giving food for thought for the day or the week. 52 little thoughts to make you smile or ponder – or just for their own sake."

sweet residue

Link: :: candy drawings :: rachel beth egenhoefer ::. candy residue on paper

"The mythic power of the grid is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism, science, or logistics, while at the same time providing us a release into belief, illusion, or fiction. The grid uses its’ materialism as a way to represent relationship, as the body uses its’ container to discuss mind. For inside the body, the body is seen as other to self; like information systems, the other, the mind, is immaterial.

Objects make our insecurities about these intangibles comfortable. They assure our thresholds of belief and decision to trust in these cyclical information systems whether digital, analog, emotional, physiological, or spiritual. Conscious or unconscious, the algorithmic movement of our bodies interacting with machines negotiates a space between. This molded space of negotiation functions in the cyclical as does our sprit, mind, machine, and grid.

Candy becomes an ideal medium to discuss that which is intangible, to represent that which does not physically exist in a form which evokes all the senses. Able to not just see and touch, but also hear, and smell; leading to the ultimate desire of taste and therefore consumption. Candy in every state of its process is temporal. Fluxuating in the threshold of temperature candy reaches it’s ideal state to harden. Only to change again, melting down with the atmospheric influences. And changing again with it’s desirable consumption. It’s being exists as a tangible representation of emotional Ferris wheels.

Textiles share obvious historical connections to technology, its object oriented process serving as the blue print for the immaterial processing of computing. They also share a constructional make-up that interests me more. Knitting together codes of base-two patterns- knits and purls, zeros and ones. Cloth provides the comfort and security of an object. It is tangible code we can see and understand, while giving us the same comfort as our own clothing accessorizing out bodies.

Tying together the processes and objects of my work is the circular looped motion that constructs our actions, desires, and movements. The cycles of analog to digital information pulsating up and down a wave of electricity. The obvious cycles of the body’s hunger and fulfillment intertwined with cycles of digestion. The motion of two hands knitting a string of yarn into cloth. The motion of our bodies interacting with machines, tensing and relaxing as we negotiate in the space between. Digital information plots points for electricity to flow through. Textile patterns plot the construction of cloth. While plotting points, like the grid, order is pure relationship, a relationship of a spinning Ferris wheel.

Placing lollipops in a grid, the temporal will prevail- they will melt, and the thus the grid. Our attempts to plateau these cycles never succeed beyond leaving a residue of that point in time." -rbe

It chooses you...

Link: Andrew Kreps Gallery.

It Chooses You September

"The world is full of objects, more or less interesting. I do not wish to add anymore." -Douglas Huebler Andrew

"The show is a conceptual installation of photographs and sculpture. While Peter Coffin's previous work invoked new age theory and pseudo science to question the way we view reality, It Chooses You pursues ideas endemic to the mental and psychological landscape. The show is in part a study of modernism, taking it from exclusivity and elitism, and rendering it playful and informal. Through abstractions of invisible thought processes and reinterpretations of iconic artworks, the artist invites a dialogue which considers the interplay of interpretation, memory and association.

It Chooses You also deals with the anatomy of an idea, illustrating that thoughts and ideas are parallel worlds unto themselves. A neon light sculpture follows the movement of an idea from the moment a synapse connects to its articulation. A painted bronze sculpture interweaves Brancusi's endless column with the children's fable of Jack and the Beanstalk. Photographs of open books, their images captured and taken out of context, ask us to imagine a context for them. The open books are often photographed together, encouraging us to create our own associations of disparate images without being led to a conclusion by the artist. These media, considered both individually and interactively within the installation, are a catalyst for unstructured creative interpretation and a meditation on the language of ideas."

running in a circle

Link: Andrew Kreps Gallery.

Ricci Albenda

"Cyclidrome continues the development of his COLOR-I-ME TRY alphabetic colorization system. The original COLOR-I-ME- TRY system maps the alphabet onto the natural spectrum and uses magenta, a nonspectral color, to represent numbers and punctuation and to create a color wheel. Every word represented using this system then has its own distinct color pattern. For Cyclidrome, Albenda has taken this full color system, which he sees as largely utopian, and expanded its functionality to accommodate real-world media. He has developed it into a series of monochromatic palettes that correspond to his vowel hues in the basic system; a – red, e – orange, i – yellow, o – green, u – blue, and (sometimes) y – purple. Each new palette retains the original hue identities of the basic COLOR-I-ME-TRY system, albeit through a color filter of that palette's defining hue. The term cyclidrome is one coined by the artist, and is an analog to the term palindrome. Literally translating as "running in a circle" (palindrome: "running again"), the cyclidrome is manifest in the pattern of each painting: the letters run around the color wheel either clockwise of counterclockwise, with somewhat even spacing. (The cyclidrome is a far more subjective phenomenon than the palindrome, and relies on the experience of its color pattern.) The installation as a whole is itself also a cyclidrome. The paintings are arranged in a circuit that represents the color wheel. Albenda's word paintings have always relied on the power of the familiar. The harmonies wrought into these works seem to capture the platonic essence of their subjects. This essence, not so much eternal as generated by experience, is currently limited to the colorless forms of letters and words. COLOR-I-ME-TRY in universal use would introduce familiar color patterns in association with each word, making every word more like a picture, giving more richness to the act of reading and a stronger visceral connection to the written word. Initially conceived as a utopian fantasy, Albenda's COLOR-I-ME-TRY is increasingly motivated by an earnest vision of its implementation..."

layers of meaning

Link: Camille Utterback.

"Written Forms maps three separate texts, one each, into the dark, medium and light areas of a live video. When viewed from a distance this collage of words melts into the recognizable image of people in the installation space. By moving their bodies to reveal different parts of the text, participants can actually decipher words and meaning in the various layers. Noise in the incoming video signal causes characters at the edges of color boundaries to flicker—creating new words and new meanings at the boundaries of the texts. The three texts used refer to dark internal spaces, muddled boundary spaces, and external ethereal spaces."

experience of words

Link: Andrew Kreps Gallery.

"True Story is a model for the notion that time is a constructed history. It draws from the concept of asynchrony, which defines time as a series of variables dependent on circumstances in which the individual, community, group, or nation is found. This concept rejects the idea that time passes similarly in all places: time passes differently for a suffering individual than for one experiencing pleasure.

In the exhibition space, three lines of action (sentences) span the distance between the walls. Each word is cut from one piece of aluminium, which is connected to the other words by a steel cable. The individual lines of action are taken from a specific situation and develop into a specific sequence of events, a "history". They are installed at eye level so that they overlap as one reads the text. Therefore, the viewer can read the text either in a continuous line, or switch from one line to the next as they intersect.

Through the various ways of reading True Story, the viewer is invited to experience the same moment in time at the same location from the perspectives of three different people. The result is a hypertext, whose content always depends on the viewer¨s specific decisions and reading direction.

Read It ...
A solitary room is constructed within the gallery. Through the artist's design, the walls of this room are a permeable barrier by which the space can be experienced - literally - through words. While the voids of letters illuminate the contours of a space that viewers are denied access to, Mancuska's treatment of the situation heightens our experience of the language describing our encounter. With "Read It," Mancuska activates the space between what is perceived and what is experienced."

flower nail

Link: raumgestalt.

FlowerNail To be “planted” is this nail’s desire – “I can hold keys, pictures and other little things. I’m even useful for chairs. You see, I’m a flower nail.” Nail with a flower head – 1, 3 or 6 in a pouch.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain one person.

Link: raumgestalt.

Blossoms Be it a rose or tender spring flowers,the receptacle rods, wrapped in white organdy, arrange the blossoms in ever new compositions, which can be supplemented by a story or stand alone. As a set of 2 or a row of 7 - in a presentation box.

Being Silent. Who keeps innerly silent, touches the roots of speech. Once for him becomes then each growing syllable victory:

Link: raumgestalt.

Inscription vase

"A vase you can write or draw on with chalks + a small sponge for a change of decor, change of motiv, change of prose, flashes of inspiration dedications, etc. quite unmistakably individual for artificial and cut flowers or dry twigs (for cut flowers, a glass must be placed in the middle for the water)"

Quote: Rilke

 

(this joy...that is born of nothing...) -andre de bouchet

Link: Collage Chandelier. via design sponge
by david wiseman

If solid happiness we prize/Within our breast this jewel lies/And they are fools who roam./The world has nothing to bestow;/From our own selves our joys must flow -nathaniel cotton

Link: frederikmolenschot.nl.   

Solid Poetry by Frederik Molenschot

When these concrete pavers become wet, the pattern within reveals itself...

forPlay

Link: FlavaUK - About Flava.

" emotional food...Flava UK has a signatory narrative that comments on eating etiquette encouraging people to interact with their food. We believe that the beauty of food is not only abundant within itself (its history, associated idioms and innuendos) but importantly; in how it makes us feel (we have coined the term 'emotional food') and therefore a rather instinctive and raw approach is reflected in our designs forPlay Collection ‘Leaving Your Mark….’

Eating etiquette has been given the elbow as Flava UK launches its new signatory range of suggestive dinner services. The forPlay Collection evokes the equally childlike and sensual pleasures of eating through a series of indulgent designs featuring stylised lick marks, wipe smear marks and drip marks, encouraging us to unleash our carnal instinct and make physical contact with our food. French fries or French Haut cuisine are presented equally attractively on a series of instinctive designs that are brought to life through playful Interaction, appealing to both sexes and multi-cultures."

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The aesthetic 'attitude' is restless, searching, testing- it is less attitude than action: creation and re-creation. -nelson goodman

Link: story | wreck this journal.

Insturctions

"In 2006 I set out to create a book that was completely experiential. I didn’t know what that would mean when i started. I had become tired of reading (and writing) about creativity and decided to make something that would make it impossible for you to be a passive observer, (how many books have we read but not acted on?). I thought about a book that was somehow integrated into the users everyday life, both as a way of documenting it but also to encourage new experiences.

Over the course of several months I took a small journal with me everywhere and added prompts to it that were based on wherever i was at the time. The idea was to use whatever was at your disposal at any given moment, no need for special art supplies or tools. If you are in a park, use the grass under your feet, or some pebbles and dirt. If you are at the office use office supplies. The act of creating can be implemented in any setting. As it progressed the book caused me to question what it means to create. in it’s simplest form any mark can be an expression of some kind. but what most excited me were the pages that told the simplest of stories, about a physical experience of being human (searching in your pockets and using whatever exists there, documenting the present moment whatever it entailed). the result was more of a conceptual piece in journal form. a journal that required the user to act and move, to think (and at times to not think). definition

Creative destruction is a term that refers to the act of making a physical change to an object, blank page or space. It is based on the premise that if you alter an object in some way, you are in fact participating in a creative experience (regardless of the outcome). The intent of creative destruction is to move beyond aesthetic judgements of whether a mark/alteration is good or bad, but instead to allow the mark to exist as documentation of a physical experience or as kind of expression. While the term “destruction” has historically had a negative connotation, in this context it is used to imply simply “alteration”..." -keri smith

Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom. -james wright

Link: fullbloomtea.com specializing in tea gifts that bloom into drinkable bouquets.

"FullBloomTea.com specializes in selling unique hand crafted artisan teas from China. Whether you are a tea lover or occasional drinker of tea, our blooming teas will impress... Each tea bloom is hand tied... When steeped in water that has been boiled, our tea blooms twist, turn, move and appear to bloom right before your eyes into amazing floral bouquets...."

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No.2 "Contemporary Stationery Items & Business GIfts" a division of Knock Knock  notepads and organization clips ...

 

New : New Products : Idea Log - Knock Knock.

"The Idea Log is a portable repository for all your creativity. From an alphabetical brainstorm archive to a place to jot wise words, all your inspirations will be readily accessible.     * 5 sections: Idea Log, Project Log, Sketch Log, Quotation Log, and Fantasy Log"

Link: CulinHome Cutlery: Splash! Collection.

"Design by Rama Chorpash for CulinHome™ The Splash Collection is cutlery with an artistic edge. Using the knife as a canvas, overlapping circles are playfully traced across the knife blade. This surgical grade stainless steel, remains sharp even with constant use. The contours of the CulinHome knife handle allow a perfect grip for comfort and control."

Link: the style files.

"Trend watcher Li Edelkoort has predicted that people will create their own ‘museum houses’. We will more and more start living among all kind of collections. This way we can show our identity and our uniqueness. Our collections, of for instance vintage glass and ceramics, can make our house and ourselves stand out of the crowd. In stead of mass production, we want unique and hard to find objects. Here are some examples to get you inspired!"

Link: Charles & Marie - Navigator Blog - Modern Living Archive » Aneis Wall Light.

"Aneis Wall Light SparklightsThe title is slightly different in spelling, but the Aneis wall light reminds us of Anais Nin, the prolific muse who inspired writers like Henry Miller against the illustrious backdrop of Paris in the 1920s. The lavish poetry of this lamp—evinced in bouquet-like arms that droop like willowy tulips, in copper, galvanized yellow, or chrome finishes—definitely reminds us of the lazy gorgeousness of bygone eras. Available from Sparklights."