Garden Writing

I am at a pretty cool place, it blocks the outside noise of the city. Inside however you are greeted by the sound of rustling trees in the wind. In the distance you hear the running water from the ponds, each containing its different inhabitants including flying. Behind the tangled bamboo trees lies a ancient looking water sculpture, made of stacked slabs with water spewing from under the three small rocks above. This acts like a gateway to the hidden gem around the corner, down the path is a scene taken from a painting. The growing pond that grew plants at the center, red bridge going over a stream bordered with rocks along the side into a bigger pond . This one bordered with rocks and growing plants , Inside the pale yellowish water contained bigger rocks that poked out of the middle. Sitting inside here zens you out, letting your mind wander about for once and a while its pretty cool.

Landscape In-Depth

Landscape Small Works

Creative Impulse: Small Works

What Is Comic Poetry Response

"..It is by their syllables that words juxtapose in beauty."
-Charles Olson

Poetry and comics go hand in hand, both being a walk inside of the artists/writers mind through there representation. Poets as Andrew Rothman writes about  are rooting around in the language toolbox devising ways to break and reinvent language. Comics on the other hand are just the visual version with juxtaposition. I loved the way Rothman used the army cannon to show how we put ourselves into the image, describing the fire off and reloading of the weapon.

Rothman uses his broad definition of both poetry and comics to sustain a openness of expression for the form as possible. His intention was to show how the cumulative goal of comic poetry, is to present itself as work that draws upon the expressive potential of visual language. Though illustration that is based on poetry is seen more as embellishments rather than comic poetry. The balance for comic and poetry is the tricky part the one thing that emphasized Duplication is dead weight.