Cyclical Wordplay Artwork

Cyclical Wordplay Artwork
Title: Mountain Reflection on Cyclical Wordplay (original manuscript made into art)

On the Artwork

On the Artwork

By using a spontaneous form of action painting, without touching the brush to the paper at any time, three different shades of paint; gold, white and black, are used to emphasize free form, spontaneous creative expression not only in the written word, but in the space that it occupies. This method of action painting which withholds all contact with brush and medium excites notions of letting pure spontaneity occur through the open-ended natural course of creation taking shape out of human hands (in the air).

This representation of the spontaneous action of free form creativity in writing makes the viewer look at the entire page as one unified expression in the creative form of the particular written piece, whereby the empty space defines the writing as much as the words expressed on the page. Those who habitually write freehand, especially free form, improvisational writers, know that the limited size and type of paper (e.g. whether there are lines, creases, folds, graphics, etc.) inevitably divides up the rhythm of open-ended spontaneous expression.

By utilizing circular objects, such as plastic compact disc panels and other circular objects, I have used a method of action painting where I flit a paint-covered brush repeatedly to introduce a dense splatter effect over a circular form in order to regard the fact that all writing is inevitably formed by the shape of the letter, word and sound through which its expression carries. Another method of action painting brought me to form sizeable globs of paint in shape of an oval, especially at the end of a tail of paint or alone, confirming the universal truth that with free form, spontaneous movement, all form inevitably assumes a circularity (or cyclicality), as represented in the oval, sphere and all other circular formations found in nature that are central to the creative essence of form.

The center of the artwork details a line with a globular oval end protruding into a circular form. This marriage of two different methods of action painting, spraying over a concretized foreign object and allowing natural shapes to occur, is the central image in the piece, which glorifies human intent metaphorically through many complementary symbols, as in the sperm and the egg among others. The globular oval and thick line formed near to the core image represents a leading expression, passing away from the center’s concretized circular form, from which the rest of the paint devolves as miniscule spatial occupations on the page. The rest of the action painting signifies the importance of relatively negligible marks defining a whole expression of greater density and presence.

Note:

The process of creating this piece: freehand spontaneous writing on notepads, transcribing writings onto a computer, editing form of writing into conventional poetics, typing out each piece onto self-prepared craft paper, stitching together each page into a wall mural (or spatial literature), action painting, re-configuring the entire spatial layout page-by-page, photographing and scanning each page, designing the end artwork via computer software

Preamble

Preamble

Opening the page to experimental, improvised writing which emphasizes and attempts a most strict depiction of the spontaneous nature of mind can be perceived with harrowing aspiration in the realm of continuity; that is flipping the page.

As a forewarning of sorts, this collection of writing, as devised for readership, is the result of an editing which has purpose in giving the spontaneous flow of mental activity form. While attempting to convey the refreshing action of letting go, all structure and boundary and, in sense, constructs of mind are dissolved.

The writing asks many questions to the reader: Where do we place ourselves as we remain glued to the mirror image of our world? When do we notice that the contour and shape of the mirror-image reflected into our minds is in fact an artificial; that is reflective function, as opposed to a direct sight? How do we understand and make observations into the absolved outpouring of mental fruition through a most basic, almost instinctual, resonance with words as mere vessels of human energy? How can we instill in the reading a sense of self, a theatrical play of noticing self as natural form, spontaneously resolved and perceived in the moment?

The title of the collection “Cyclical Wordplay” brings to light the foundational nature of creation as a cyclical process, with rhythmic momentum in a constant transition between renewal and decomposition. The idea “Wordplay” refers to a notion that words can be as sounds on an instrument, simply meant to be full to the brim with a particular feeling and raw emotion/thought/idea/sensation through which it is able to carry into a context of form and meaning. So, in a sense, we can conceive of words' symbolic sound, through which the newfound impression of the given moment may relay its inward need to express itself in a very subtle form; through a word. Each individual reader is as an instrument through which that symbolic sound or word idea is carried and resonates with a new meaning each time, according to the particular temperament and character of the individual, allowing that symbolic sound or meaning to carry through them as its basic vibration.

Dry Maze/Maiz

lied.

class, dread,
Cancer, friend,

blue in mind,
eyes spun, burning

street,
eating heat and leaves,

scarring
gross need,

bored
drained need,

ruffian
blind guise,

covered snake
built deranged

hurrying far to drink

light tar worry,
hardened clots

estranged as a flicked finger

talk,
raised mild & wise,

early,
mundane feet,

breeding
in sleep,

learn to war
randomly,

grain
a lie, buried

divine
judging a cry or forgetting them to get high,

blurring answers
to mourn the wish-stick
fixed

in corrosive smoke
lick

mean,
bold caffeinated stories
crumbling in donut stores,

chalk-faced cops
not budging,

bland disaster
congratulated for a laugh

joking to ordain the blood
lined seat of soft anguish

tragic
frozen sweetmeat

feeling stomachs cool
to more pain,

fractured waning
and suffered fasting

molding
to the booze flood of beauty

sick drug
torn

filling white earth
to face masculinity

spitting genital ash
in the followed

reserved slaughtering
traditionally mixing strict and sore

a lush imprisoned dick
curving

shot
into the infants

flying
to join the play

dead
wasted in hate and fire

"oh my Dorothy of whorish witchery
chillin’ in Kansas with a lord of green corn mound prophecy"

only bludgeoning the scalp of a painted sky
choking graves with free dreaming,

orchards poor with the rakish wife of the storm-brought blues
on America’s southern news

rhymin’
cave

droppin’
slugs

grooved into the slack of an addict
bothered

tongue flat as a Spanish knife
used to distort a morbid trance of bread

there is a dry golden torch
repeating shadows of histories
on the shaking lips of the mindless
reading

binge
afraid all the way to the moaning shores

bitter
chained & faking an illness to gain hot perspective
in a dry maize

maze

09’ University of Calgary

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