Back on May 1st in my post Reviewing April and Contemplating May, I talked about my plan to collect all of the abstract nouns and place them in grids along the three axes of fear (fight to flight); control (inner to outer); and bias (positive to negative) in an attempt to find a new BigContinue reading “Continuing My Contradictory Abstract Noun Study”
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As the Bottle Spins
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is “bottle.” The Bottle Spins The perfect summer sunlight filled the empty bottleonce stopped it held a warm vibrating lightthe bottle sat on a shelf like a secret to not tellwaiting for a winter darkness that was right once stopped; it held the warm vibrating lightwhen he reachedContinue reading “As the Bottle Spins”
Proverbial Honey
dVerse Poets Pub For today’s Meet the Bar prompt, Björn introduces us to the work of John Donne and invites us to follow his eighteen line heroic sonnet form. The line about honey in Donne’s poem made me think of a couple Proverbs about honey, so I thought I would rewrite them to fit intoContinue reading “Proverbial Honey”
RNLN #14 The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran’s Exploration of Abstract Nouns
Reading Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN 14) To get back into my abstractions posts, and my reading novels like a novelist (RNLN) posts I thought I’d explore The Prophet as both. I finally read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, originally published in 1923. The short book had been on my radar for a while, butContinue reading “RNLN #14 The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran’s Exploration of Abstract Nouns”
Me, I Emu
dVerse Poets Pub For today’s Poetics prompt, Sarah invites us to verb animals and use those verbs or verb phrases—like “horsing around” or “pigging out” or our own inventions like “eagle over” or “ant the whole hill”—in our poem. This Animal Kingdom He is always sharking—dead-eyed stare, open mouthfull of sharpnessalways moving—prowlingfor the next morselContinue reading “Me, I Emu”
How Gravity Affects Composition
In my last abstractions post, I talked about The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts by Rudolf Arnheim, and the ideas of centric and eccentric composition. Arnheim goes on to talk about how forces like gravity can effect composition which I found interesting. Arnheim says, “Walking downhill, dropping, orContinue reading “How Gravity Affects Composition”
She Says Peculiarity is Orange
For those readers who are wondering where my Reading Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN) post is, those posts are on hold for now. I’m still reading and taking notes on a novel a week, I’m just not into spending the time writing about them right now. We’re having some early summer weather here in theContinue reading “She Says Peculiarity is Orange”
Dialectic Composition: Centricity and Eccentricity
While contemplating the next steps in my study of contradictory abstract nouns, I started reading The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts by Rudolf Arnheim, and realized that focusing on composition, both in my images and in my poetry is a logical next step. Arnheim proposes that there areContinue reading “Dialectic Composition: Centricity and Eccentricity”
Reviewing April and Contemplating May
Thank you to every reader who came by, read about contradictory abstract nouns, looked at my art, and read my poems. I appreciate the time you gave my work, and the nice comments and fun interactions. To finish out the month long project, I printed out the rest of the images, and put all ofContinue reading “Reviewing April and Contemplating May”
Point, Line, and a Code of Emotion
This week I finished reading Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky. Though it’s a confusing read at times, he has many interesting ideas about how the elements of abstract art interact with the world to express and create emotion. Last week I gave his great example of the point as silence. Moving theContinue reading “Point, Line, and a Code of Emotion”
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