Friday, January 1, 2010

New Poetry for 2010

What Appeared To Be Half, Is Yours But Also Ours
What is creating?
Search for something different.
Swirling around Paris.
Searching further, and experimenting with collage.

Blue-green amoebas,
With enlarged heads, and angry faces.

Circles of yellow.
A romantic narrative.
Give them names like Pierre.

A brilliantly psychedelic head.
Painted in acid, on cardboard.
People glued to ropes, mixed with sand on paper.
Hilarious lowbrow humor intended for New York.



Fascinating Anecdotes of A Forklift Operator
Visual states.
A blend of theories.
Forms of the conscious mind?

Composed poetry.
Strange and beautiful.
Moving casually between good.

Does anyone care about right angles and colored squares?
Listen to the unspoken.
A video with leaves and green murals.
It's a simple metaphor.

Strange paintings nearly forgotten.
Bizarre images of yellow trees.
A vibrating eyeball, surrounded by magnetic dots.

His teachings of the fourth dimension,
Sounded natural and organic.
A kind of beauty falling backwards.

The missed opportunity explained.
Let time slip away.
Rejecting a sign of genius.

Orange, with a flowering burst of deep orange.
Faint interruptions of orange.
Devoured by orange.

Aluminum sculptures of monumental size.
Handcrafted and painted translucent black.
They don't fit in a gallery.



Psychosis Dressed In A Tuxedo
Inquiry or criticism?
I want things to happen.
Recognizing limits as fixed.

Everyone is dumbfounded of reality or anything, for that matter.
Make sense of the past with absolute confusion.

Pretending average people still exist.
She seems uniquely talented with math.

Humans invent computers.
Computers make humans.
An unpredictable relationship.
The show begins.

For every conceivable cause, all of which is upstairs.
An unfortunate misreading that I don't seem to remember.
Position undermines the notion.
Is there a universe?

He doesn't realize.
Concern is not the concern, I think.
Inhibited action, but not to paralyze.

Take an eight hour lunch.
Applesauce is important.


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.