I have to admit, August was tough. The weather turned as if Summer took its ball and went home, leaving me with nothing to play with and only the constant banging from the construction next door to keep me company. However, the sun returned yesterday, bringing with it a will to get back to work,Continue reading “A Sonnet of a Different Meter”
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Inspired by Alma Thomas’s Abstracts
This week’s Poetics prompt from dVerse Poets Pub is to choose a painting by Alma Thomas to inspire a poem. What struck me most about her pieces is how she evoked spaces and feelings with what looked to me like uneven bricks. I made an uneven bricks filter last fall, so inspired by Alma Thomas’sContinue reading “Inspired by Alma Thomas’s Abstracts”
Continuing My Contradictory Abstract Noun Study
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”
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”
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”
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”
Kandinsky and the Inner Tensions of the Point
I’ve reached an interesting and complicated point in my study. I want to create images that express contradictory abstract nouns and evoke emotion. But how will I photograph those images if everyone has different definitions for abstract nouns and everyone perceives images differently? How do points, lines, and colors on a two-dimensional surface evoke emotionContinue reading “Kandinsky and the Inner Tensions of the Point”
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