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In the past several months, I have been making "haptic" drawings in response to
poets reading their works in public. I tend to let the pen move in response to the contours, rhythms
and levels of a pitch in a poets voice. The movement of the pen is a
way of ˇdancing˘ with the work - as well as responding - as it is embodied by the poet˘s voice.
There is nothing specifically narrative about process - the pen can
take off from any part of the page, can layer back and forth across
itself, etc. The "haptic" becomes a unique way of manifesting a poem and
poet˘s presence, as distinct in its own way as a still photograph, a
video and/or an audio recording. A haptic is a kind of cardiograph of
the process, much in the manner that Philip Whalen talks about the poem
as a moving graph, etc. All of these works are
done with a Faber Castell India Ink brush pen, often in combination
with Micron hard-point pens of different guages (˘fine˘, ˇmedium˘,
etc). If some of it looks familiar, the pieces have been periodically hosted on my blog; I thought it might be advantageous for comparative reasons to create
this little anthology with some commentary, some not. Poets include
Taylor Brady, Rob Halpern, Philip Lamantia (as rendered by Brian Lucas,
Andrew Joron, Neeli Cherkovski, Adam Cornford, & J. Vale), Chad Lietz,
Judith Goldman, Aaron Shurin, Joanne Kyger and Ann Waldman.
Delving further down in recent blog history will show pieces derived from both live and recorded musians.
As always, I appreciate any feedback, well, most feedback!
Stephen Vincent
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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