mutability of language and the oscillation between reading and looking that occurs when a relational, rather than grammatical, syntax is imposed/employed; similarly, the poetic and cryptographic(?) potential of language in this situation
abandonment of figuration, however use of the image in a dialectic conversation with the text
to avoid any claim within my work as being concrete poetry or being reducible to just wordplays and rebuses (that said, I’m curious as to how puns, rhymes, stutters can be expressed visually)
writing as mark making (looking towards automatic/asemic writing)
sources/themes by which ^^^^^ can be expressed
literary and art historical references (our sunshine, the difference between a flaming cat and a flight of geese, the observable universe)
the internet, as an expression of contemporary society – scale is inherent to this (the street song last on our lips, revision history)
‘found poetry’ in cryptic crossword workings, survey marks, what3words, usernames, search terms etc. as literary and social palimpsests and readymades
conceptual/historical background
caligrams, Ezra Pound’s ideogrammic method, concrete poetry
mark-making and literary references of Cy Twombly and Julie Mehretu
contemporaneity and scale in Simryn Gill, Walid Raad’s Atlas Group, Walter Benjamin’s One-Way Street
role of text in art via the Art & Language Group; ekphrastic writing, particularly John Berger and Ben Lerner
other artists I’m looking at: Adam Pendleton, Amanda Marburg, Christopher Wool, Wade Guyton, Clare Milledge, Robert Macpherson; I still don’t know where I fit in yet
things to sort out as soon as possible
use of siccative with glaze
glazing over multiple layers of text set upon unfocused images, without over-obscuring or clouding the ground image
blurring but getting a more even soft focus, rather than a streaky blur > can maybe complete through more dogs
the observable universe (large vertical canvas, previously pink)
complete tiny studies with glazing over text
text describing galaxies, stars, satellites, planets and constellations, layered by apparent magnitude > probably 10 days in this, with the drying times
black and white and red all over — crosswords
just need to stretch some canvas and start
continue talking with Emmalyn, re: poems created from the work
revision history — wikipedia edit histories, layered by date, set over the cover image
need to establish narrative theme (maybe) for series
need to sort out the soft focus
other works commenced but which probably won’t happen this semester
our sunshine
proper(?) version of “slip slop slap” study
on stretched canvas, at a slightly larger scale
the difference between a flaming cat and flight of geese
already stretched and started planning, but stuck on the planning