Daily Poetics

... We imprint intimacy in the songs, give them a narrative separate from and parallel to what the author's intent was. In that way, we make the songs symbolic of our own relationships.

Link: Dezeen » Blog Archive » Tableware by Kathryn Hinton.

"I am creating diverse collections of flatware which translate the different aspects of my concept. The pieces have an individual aesthetic and change into new forms when they playfully interact with each other.

The pieces come together through the lettering shown on the tines of the fork and where it has been, leaving a mark. Another concept can be seen through the exhausted cutlery which flops over a plate or surface to interact with the tableware.

In the Exhausted range, the utensils take the form of the tableware they fall on. The pieces are exhausted by constant treatment and use.

The non sharing bowl is a double bowl with two forks that have ‘MINE’ in different fonts on the end of the tines. The bowls have ‘MINE’ in the two fonts etched randomly around to encourage competitive behavior.

The forked bowl incorporates the same idea but different lettering to show the forks function and where it has been leaving its mark.

The personal fork has my initials on as an example of a personal fork for hallmarking your food. I have done this with the intention that people can commission their own initials"

Title Quote: Howard Kramer

 

All things come from nowhere! How vast, how invisible, no way to explain it!

Link: You are about to enter journal heaven.
Shedding Light

"Shedding Light explores the book as a tactile object in the extreme. Taking away the book’s usual visual narrative clues, the seeing reader is left with little traditional visual information with which to decode the presented ‘text’, but instead is faced with a Braille text implicitly inviting them to feel the narrative. A ‘key’ is provided in the form of a visual Braille alphabet card to assist readers who are curious to know what is hidden from view.

The solution to for the seeing reader is to allow light to be cast upon and through the page and in so doing illuminate a hidden text that is printed on the underside of the page that deciphers the Braille. Some reader, of course, may never discover this." -jh

Title Quote: Chuang Tzu

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Link: Poesia dorsale - page 3.

Poems written from the arrangement of book titles ... "Poetry Backbone"

poesiadorsale.it

"Putting books one above the other so that the titles will concatenino to form verses. This is done 'poetry backbone.' It is called so because it comes from the backs of books, not by titles. The difference is only visual, because he invented a graphic designer and photographer, Silvano Belloni. What has not had the inspiration pensandoci up, but setting a shelf crowded with books. The journalist Antonella Ottolina was in love the idea and gave life composing the poems backbones. For example: when you're part of me, myself and only you, can I no longer walk. Tell someone you are here. I want to scream the voiceless first steps that poetry is a poem composed by dorsal 8 books that have no relevance gender, only for cases, all signed by Italian authors. These are the headlines: when camilla carrara (new authors 2006) part of me six of raffaella bedini (anagram 2007) and I you only stefano of aroldi (new authors 2007) not rie"

Title Quote: E.M. Forster

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume....

Link: Mickey Smith Artist + Photographer.

 

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. -T.S.Eliot

 

"Volume is an ongoing project documenting bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Most of these publications are being replaced by their online counterparts, and in many cases the printed versions are no longer bound. Several titles photographed in the process of this project have been removed from the stacks due to space and budget constraints. Searching endless rows of these utilitarian texts, I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and tenuousness of printed works as they fade from public consciousness.

The act of hunting for and photographing these objects is fundamental to my process. I do not touch, light, or manipulate the books and words – preferring to document them as found in the stacks, created by the librarian, and positioned by the last unknown reader.

The irony and graphic quality of repeating titles fascinate and draw, no matter how mundane, from known to obscure, from Vogue to Blood. I focus on simple, provocative titles that transcend the spines on which they appear.

Note: Collocation is defined as "the act or result of placing or arranging together, specifically: a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements (as words)." -Mickey Smith

No Maps ...

Link: Keep Calm Ltd » Get Lost.

"Each of these stunning prints have been hand letterpressed by Doug, directly onto old maps of the UK! The diversity of these maps and the printing method combined means that each print is truly unique."

"And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of faith who walked in the monotone of the desert and saw brightness and faith and colour. The way a stone or found metal box or bone can become loved and turn eternal in a prayer. Such glory of this country she enters now and becomes part of. We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography-to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps." -Michael Ondaatje

I sometimes hold it half a sin / To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal ? And half conceal the Soul within.

Link: MoCo Loco: ICFF 2008: Tracy Kendall . Title Quote: Tennyson

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Link: White Cube — Cerith Wyn Evans .

"Cerith Wyn Evan’s conceptual practice incorporates a wide range of media, including installation works, sculptures, photography, film and text.

Wyn Evans began his career as a video and filmmaker, initially assisting Derek Jarman, and then making short, experimental films during the 1980s. Since the 1990s, his work could be characterised by its focus on language and perception, as well as its precise, conceptual clarity that is often developed out of the context of the exhibition site or its history. For Wyn Evans, installations should work like a catalyst: a reservoir of possible meanings that can unravel many discursive journeys. Moreover, his work has a highly refined aesthetic that is often informed by the his deep interest in film history and literature. Indeed, Wyn Evans’ earlier creators often inhabit his work, an indication of his desire to keep their ideas in play or bring them back to life in order to use them as raw material for future thought. Often his works harness the potential of language to create moments of rupture and delight, where romantic longing, desire and reality conjoin. His ‘Firework’ pieces, for example, are wooden structures that spell out open-ended texts that burn over a designated period of time. His ‘Chandelier’ sculptures evoke notions of otherworldly communication by using sections of texts that have been translated into the flashing light signals of Morse Code. In his film and slide installations, such as The Curves of the Needle (2003), Wyn Evans manipulates sound to form a parallel ‘text’ to the visuals, where meaning is opened up by the unexpected slippage that occurs when the soundtrack is dislodged, changed or removed."

Title Quote: Thoreau

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Link: Fiona Banner.

"with the neon alphabet, 'every word unmade' i was thinking about a kind
of unmaking of language. as if you could make every word, or story imaginable,
from these 26 letters. all the potential is there, but none of the words.
the fragile wobberly letters, a byproduce of incrementally, inexpertly bending
the glass-then the electrical circuit pumping the gas through, make it like
one big, constant stutter...words about to be made or unmade. because i have
no practical experience of working with glass, the neon is kindof crappily made.
the final piece reflects the struggle to control the medium, the language,
if you like, that in turn reflects the struggle to define the meaning."
letters without words...

title quote: robert southey

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written

Link: Fiona Gray - Ceramic Artist and Illustrator .

LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM THE KILN             

"The fragility of letters  and the idea of sentiment and thoughts preserved in such a permanent way is a  powerful concept" Spaces magazine, February 2008
   
Have you ever wanted to write someone a love letter but the old fashioned pen and paper method is not for you? Or perhaps you have been tempted to peek at a secret letter written to someone else?

Ceramic artist and illustrator Fiona Gray has created an art form out of the loving words of others, and the desire of one person to peek at the thoughts of another. Her unique porcelain letter parcels offer the writer the chance to preserve their thoughts and feelings in a more permanent way than paper, at the same time seducing the viewer with a special intimacy with the written words.

Fiona came up with the idea of the letter parcels during her MA course in Ceramics, as she was interested in the hidden meanings within an artwork, leaving the viewer to question what was revealed but also questioning the concealed elements. She prints words from people’s letters and private thoughts, perhaps a diary entry or a letter written or received, and censors areas so the viewer is unable to read the whole letter, thus offering them the chance to fill in the blanks.

“It is that desire to reveal properties below the surface or picture plane, the sneak look or glance that is seduction; the intimacy between viewer and the artwork places the viewer, until the last possible moment, in the position of a voyeur.”

Title Quote: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

                                                   

 

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

Link: Etsy :: fieldandsea :: Handmade Story Beads.

"Handmade beads made from natural, unbleached paper. Each bead is a line printed with the words of a little tale of a young boy yearning for the attention of a certain little girl. I wrote the story, printed and rolled each bead."

Title Quote: Groucho Marx