Background: I take the Brooklyn Rail newspaper and underline words and phases in the articles that catch my attention. Then circle a word or phrase for the title. It's more of a subtractive process, taking a page of words and editing down to a poem or maybe several. It's kind of backwards from the traditional process of adding words to a blank page, but it works for me. The pieces of newspaper with these random abstract poems get used as collage material in my artwork. I create the artwork. My darker, semi-schizophrenic alter ego creates the poetry.
The concept of taking something that already exists and turning it into something new was inspired by a Richard Prince exhibition I visited at the Guggenheim - 2008. His re-photography, nurse paintings, and deKooning woman, collage paintings were my favorites.
Examples: You can see actual articles from the Brooklyn Rail with the poetry on my website at - www.ErikVP.com/poetry
Edges Negotiated
Disintegration is necessary,
In order to create new ones.
Lines don't intersect like this.
That's true.
They break down.
Things break down.
Give the positive,
To make the negative.
I want the opposite of break down.
My approach uses unpredictable images.
Time can be condensed.
Construction is destruction.
A consequence of both.
Nature, in a way proactive.
It's a quicker tempo.
More extreme.
I don't really have any control over that.
A very complicated transparency,
Set in motion.
Together Again
There's this whole thing about recognizing.
An agenda of the government.
They recognize these people.
Then they filter whoever.
Our government.
What do you take from this?
People don't realize,
What appears to be.
Ends up being really intense.
Some sort of connection.
Seen around the world.
They break apart,
Then come back.
Or vice versa.
Painful To Be Purple
Free falling into a pit of snakes.
Coming unhinged,
Is more precise.
Time, a conventional structure.
More articulation.
Waiting for the beat.
Infused and broken down.
A song called.
Can you see?
The final song to everyone.
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