So, I started to write about the poetry project and instead deviated yet again into the litany of my discontents. Yeesh.
Did I forget to say how much I’m enjoying Jesse’s poems?
The main challenge in working from poems is that I’m so literal-minded, it takes me a while to get past the most obvious, pure illustrations [...]
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Laziness. Or Synecdoche. Palimpsest.
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged jesse lichtenstein, literal-mindedness, poetry project on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry Project
Posted in Thinking Things Through, tagged anne truitt, doubt, poetry project, searching for a way forward on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have embarked on a new project, and uncharacteristically, it is a kind of collaboration. While we were on our blissful rafting trip down the John Day river a month ago, our friend Jesse Lichtenstein, a writer and poet, asked if I would be interested in collaborating, sharing his poems and my paintings and seeing [...]