Friday, February 26, 2010

Found Art

Below is material from what may seem an esoteric exercise from my last MFA residency, but I kind of liked what came out of it. This is actually just a part of the whole process, which involved the insertion of some other text between sections.

When all of it's said and done the process winds up being a bit of a psychological exercise that mines your thoughts about your writing. It really provides insight. I was amazed.

Our assignment was to seek out signs or words in our environment then write a few lines about each. Made me notice things I was walking past, for sure.

Outside the process, as a mixture of found art and text, this is what came about:


Waiting, unseen
To be of
Waiting underfoot
Notice
Service underground



Walk this way
Give me a hand
Give me feet
Give me a heart




The way you're supposed to be going is behind you
The way your are going is ahead
Gate keepers say turn back
Something says keep going.

3 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

That is pretty cool. Short poems about such things. Brings 'em to your attention. Helps focus memory on them.

Lana Gramlich said...

That looks like a fun, little exercise, I have to say. Love what you came up with.

Steve Malley said...

That was neat!

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