Forgetting the Words 2018
A list poem, three ways (2018-2020).
A cascading column of words about contact, touch, and proximity respond to a photographic series of images made with a flatbed scanner-as-camera. First exhibited as a floor-to-ceiling, concrete poetry-inspired vinyl installation, this poem simultaneously described the mechanical processes with which the accompanying photographs were made while generally alluding to a language of the body and its pressures. In the following months, I worked with the printshop at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity to produce a letterpress adaptation, in which the words were printed in a blind deboss (sans ink), taking form through the pressure of metal type onto paper. Recently, Foreland Catskill invited me to create a public work on the occasion of Upstate Art Weekend. We opted to render the poem in my handwriting, scaled to the building’s exterior as a two and a half story banner.
Forgetting the Words
River Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer, 2018
Limited Edition of 15, 2018
Letterpress on Stonehenge White 250gsm archival paper
8.5 x 17 in.
Printed at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity,
Banff, Alberta, CA
Upstate Art Weekend
25 x 15 ft. vinyl banner
Foreland, Catskill, NY
Summer, 2020
