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Additional Experiments With
Images and Language
began to think about using language more directly. Another member of The Creative
Matrix combined digital collage and original poetry. I loved this combination of images
and language, and though I had started to write poems in a separate journal, I took one
more step before pairing my own poetry and collage.
As I worked on a collage, I searched for well known literary works reflecting the feelings
that surfaced; quotes or poetry that let me say what I would have liked to say in my own
words. I wrote sections from these works legibly onto my artwork. Tucked among the
written quotes were bits of Jazz Writing. Footfalls Echo and Love Poems are two
examples of this approach.
Down the passage which we
did not take Towards the door
we never opened Into the
rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind. But to
what purpose Disturbing the
dust on a bowl of rose-leaves.”
~T.S.Eliot
when our pleasure are past—
For years fleet away with the
wings of the dove—
The dearest remembrance will
still be the last,
Our sweet memorial the first
kiss of love.”
~ Lord Byron
are examples of this process. The original versions of these two collages were
accompanied by the same quotes, but no text or calligraphy was included in the images.
Going back to enhance older work became an important part of this project; an additional
approach to combining art and writing therapeutically by symbolically taking “older parts
of myself” and integrating them with newer understanding.
cosmic dance of creation and
destruction teaching us that each act
of destruction calls for an act of
creation. We take that into our grief
to teach us that we heal our loss
through acts of creation.”
~The Shiva Foundation
fragment of nature, and if we hasten
the disappearance of even one
species, we diminish our world and
our place in it.
~James Michener
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