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detail of hand-made cover
for Seeking the
Open Heart
SEEKING THE OPEN HEART.
This project began in the Fall of 2000 when Michael Hannon visited my studio, and gave me two poems, saying, "see if anything comes to you from these." The following January he returned with more poems and we decided to work towards a book of poetry and art. In the winter I traveled to Chiang Mai, Thailand and brought home some mulberry sa paper that I used for a suite of images, responding to Michael's poems.
I tried to create paintings that evoked the rhythms I understood in Michael's poetry. I lived with the poems for months, even taking them with me when I traveled. Then I put the poetry away. I would recall a fragment, at times only a single word, or a memory of the poem's movement, and from that wisp of sensation, would began painting. This freed me up to create images that felt primary and not illustrative. I placed words and images so that they existed in a freer, independent interplay.
Each 21 1/2" x 30 1/2" painting was made from acrylic, charcoal and pastel on Mulberry-Sa paper, scanned full-sized and used in effect as the plate from which the limited edition of prints was made.
I made individual covers by a variation of a paste painting technique as seen in the sidebar on this page.
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