A Way of Art
Starting with pages torn from the book The Artist’s Way (by Julia Cameron), I discovered/uncovered/created poem-drawings of a personal and perhaps more enigmatic “artist’s way.”
As poems, redactions, and multi-media works, these pieces convey meaning, reveal process, and investigate the connection between writing and drawing.
Below are a few of the individual pages (there are 25 in all) and some installation shots of the “scroll” exhibited at The Lichtenstein Center in Pittsfield, MA. Also shown are examples of the typographic iterations I did of each altered page. These were part of the installation and also exist separately as handmade book.
Work from this series was featured in Yew Journal, March 2014 and in the book, Splitting the Genre: An Intersection of Poetry and Art (Six Arrow Press 2014). In 2016, the typographic iterations were published in e-book form under the title Unseen Avenue (Argotist Ebooks).
Installation view of the scroll, titled “The Artist’s Way, Reiterated,” at The Lichtenstein Center, Pittsfield, MA, October 2012
Yes, this
Yes, this (with typographic reiteration)
All right, agreed
All right, agreed (with typographic reiteration)
If you love blue velvet
If you love blue velvet (installation view, with typographic iteration)
If you love blue velvet (installation detail of typographic iteration)
I remember
I remember (detail)
I remember (installation view)
Able to take it (with typographic iteration)
At least draw (with typographic iteration)
pages from book of typographic drawings
