Untitled, March 2007
Deborah Poe, USA
| Untitled, March 2007;
Deborah Poe, USA, April 2013 Literature helps us connect with human beings; it allows us to see and be seen within a larger framework of complexities. This framework is helpful for grasping a richer understanding of social, political and cultural questions - questions dominant narratives don't necessarily ask or answer. Language is the connective tissue that allows us to resist barriers of thought and experience. I attempt here to provide material opposition to binary ways of thinking about identity and difference - binary modes of being that I believe lead to events like the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street. Untitled, March 2007 responds to al-Mutanabbi Street's history by way of a meditation on language, human connection, and the (im)possibilities of witness. Dimensions: 6”x6”; Medium: Cover, oil-based roofing material (shingles) and mirror fragment; pages, Royal Linen paper (color “Natural”); endpapers, Kitikata paper; binding, brass brads. Deborah Poe's poetry collections include the last will be stone, too (Stockport Flats), Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). Her visual work - including video and handmade books - has appeared with the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Poetry Off the Page Symposium (Tucson), the Handmade/Homemade Sister Exhibit at Brodsky Gallery (Philadelphia), and ONN/OF “a light festival” (Seattle). Online exhibits of her visual and text work include Lex-ICON, Yew Journal, PEEP/SHOW, Elective Affinities, The Volta's Medium, and Trickhouse. www.deborahpoe.com deborah.poe@gmail.com |