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Thanks Stephen! I see that the long link got broken and may be unusable so I made a tiny URL for it: http://tinyurl.com/9bbxn -Peter ARTIST'S BLOG - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:48:10 -0700 Subject: Re: Photo-Text Snaps Wonderful rich golden image, Peter - psychic revelation indeed! Take a look everybody! Stephen V Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > Stephen, > I meant to comment the other day on your use of images in relation to > text on your blog. I was particularly drawn to "Raised by Ghosts" and > the accompanying text. I can see how the images actually provide visual > clues that span the text. > > For quite some time I have been fascinated with "psychic connection" > (as you put it) of certain images evoking strong emotional narrative > responses. What I find really interesting is the act of posting an > image link in an email as if the clicking on the link and viewing the > image is a form of language itself. The viewer then creates the > narrative. Perhaps this is a more subconscious and unadulterated form > of authorship? I like them best as if they were snap poems. Snap image > poems. > > Here is one. > The moment I opened the door, I realized that something hideous had > occurred > > http://photos1.blogger.com/img/2/1002/1024/The-moment-I-opened-the-doo.jp > g > > -Peter Ciccariello > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:25:45 -0700 > Subject: Photo-Text Snaps > > Lately, courtesy of an infatuation with Flickr - the internet image > hosting > program - I have been having a kind of mysterious fun going into > dialog with > images - digital "snaps" - I take from off my neighborhood streets. > Unlike > the conventional "picture" poem in which the poet creates an image > (drawn > from a painting, or observation) that is re-invoked entirely within the > context &/or frame(s) of language (without any literal picture), the > cyber-world clearly offers the opportunity to marry, or better, let's > say > juxtapose the mediums and put them into a kind of conversation. > (Obviously, > for the technically more sophisticated, the image can be manipulated > and the > text can be variously integrated, fracture, etc. There is much of this > exploration/experimentation abounding among certain poets). At the > moment I > am frankly more interested in the photo as a way to "pop" or "trigger" > fresh > text - either as narrative or with a somewhat (!) conventional poem. > Something in me, for example, is drawn to take a particular photo and > not > another. The image becomes a means of fishing out the psychic > connection in > the making of a poem - or if not so psychologically bent - the image > just > provokes a language that forms its own trail of exploration. Somehow, > for > example, my photograph of a basketball hoop (a game at which I was > pretty > adept) becomes a means of both reflecting on a life, as well as a > memoriam > for Robert Creeley. Yet, to convolute the issue here - or the newness > of > this form - I don't think, in many cases, that the language can exist > independent of the image (and the images combined with the language are > enriched in terms of meaning or implication, as well) > > I know Sebald used those usually in paperback terribly reproduced gray > photos as pretext to segments of his novels. Maybe what this form > offers is > something in that vein - only much more fragment centered. > > If interested, this has been the latest boogie on my blog. I will > appreciate > input and comments. > > Stephen V > Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > >