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‘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"