Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Large Amounts of Natural Suspicion, Under the Raspberry Tree - November 12, 2009

Make us feel critical of the mind.
Repeat the jargon next to the hypothetical elevator.
Divided between two in all directions.
Uniformity through six, a natural conclusion.

Looking to escape the crowd.
To see concentrically outward.
A boundary observed from space.
Perceived ringing pushed beyond the horizon.

This photograph disappeared from New York.
A small fruit farm, in black and white.

A new image developed.
Spreading slowly away from the dying leaves.
Run past the trees,
And live to see the second world.

A climatic zone breeding resilient plants.
With a dozen before ten,
A second experiment grew large and small.

Tinkering within hidden marshlands.
Deep purple and golden reds.
Enormous red fruit thrived in bushels.

A bottle of winter left for four years.
A cold tonic invented to cure.
Only raspberries grow in the swamp,
And tea leaves change the weather.

The system could be accessed.
An entry point behind the phenomenon.
They knew it and didn't know.


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.

The concept of taking something that already exists and turning it into something new was inspired by a Richard Prince exhibition at the Guggenheim - 2008. His re-photography, nurse paintings, and deKooning woman, collage paintings were my favorites.

"Large Amounts of Natural Suspicion, Under the Raspberry Tree" was created from the following Brooklyn Rail articles.

The Brooklyn Rail - November 2008 pg. 92
From "Under Every Spreading Tree" by Carl Peterson
"The Raspberry Prince"
"The New Suburbia"
"The Strategic Value of Holcombe High"