poem walk three
(silent) documentation video for the third "poem walk" performance. once more i thank ben niespodziany for the original idea and permission to make it a practice of my own.
not included in this video: the wonderful scent of the tortillerias i passed by, heavy-hanging in the rainy air, and the sound of buskers and recorded music on the main shopping street in my neighborhood.
Jay! Love it! I was just writing about a book (you prob already know it) by Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, and she writes, "A visual event may reproduce itself in the realm of touch (as when the seen face incites and ache of longing in the hand, and the hand then presses pencil to paper), which may in turn then reappear in a second visual event . . . [t]his crisscrossing of the senses may happen in any direction . . ." (The tortilla smell!)
ReplyDeleteoh, i don't know that one! i'll see if i can get it from the library. i have her book on pain, but had lost track of more recent work. it's an interesting connection; the autistic & synesthetic processes of my artmaking i think are definitely related to this "in any direction." certainly i may make a text using language that then enters the world (wrote "word," ok too) through many formats...not all of which are verbal or semiotic...or make a piece of work i call a poem that doesn't have any particular word or image involvement, more my own body moving in space, that's a poem, because i'm there, a poet.
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