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8 × 10 , Hahnemuhle paper
(1 in stock)
Custom Sizes Available
Poetry Machine
The Poetry Machine traces the path of my creative process, one that often swings between words and images. Beginning with a vintage typewriter, I placed a series of small objects from my collection on the keys and then wondered what kind of poems or images such a machine might invent.
In a series of playful experiments, I trusted my intuition and imagination, as the machine seemed to become animated with its own mysterious activity. After printing the final image, I was surprised to discover that without my deliberate intention, the machine had actually written a poem. On a closer look at the small words on some of the keys and reading them from left to right, the machine has written:
Memory
into life
becomes image.
This is only
you.
Conjure time,
come
and
The simple word and seems deceptively potent to me – perhaps it is the most elemental key to the creative process – open-ended, recurring, additive - and then, and then, and then, and….
8 × 10 , Hahnemuhle paper
(1 in stock)
Custom Sizes Available
Poetry Machine
The Poetry Machine traces the path of my creative process, one that often swings between words and images. Beginning with a vintage typewriter, I placed a series of small objects from my collection on the keys and then wondered what kind of poems or images such a machine might invent.
In a series of playful experiments, I trusted my intuition and imagination, as the machine seemed to become animated with its own mysterious activity. After printing the final image, I was surprised to discover that without my deliberate intention, the machine had actually written a poem. On a closer look at the small words on some of the keys and reading them from left to right, the machine has written:
Memory
into life
becomes image.
This is only
you.
Conjure time,
come
and
The simple word and seems deceptively potent to me – perhaps it is the most elemental key to the creative process – open-ended, recurring, additive - and then, and then, and then, and….