I am working on a large series of illustrations to be paired with poems written by Jeremy Barr.
See: Jeremy's Blog
The title of the book, which is a collection of poems, will be called: "Poems for American Girl with a Czech Surname". All the illustrations are visual interpretations of his literary pieces, which challenged me as well as helped me improve a bit as an artist. At this point it is unclear as to when exactly it will be released, but I expect to be done with all the illustrations in the beginning of 2009, hopefully with independent printing done and copies available by Summer 2009.
She saw this piece and liked it.
ReplyDeleteThis is a poem about it:
Meta-Metropolitan San Fransisco Baltimore Conduit Vibration
Last week, she lugged hundreds of cassettes
up the stairs from the basement,
and
down to the alley for the trash.
She is reading a novel about the Visceral Realists,
they are artists who have telekinesis.
They are poets with a sexual appetite for revolution.
She crouched in the alley way to find
( 2 ) two cassette tapes
as a memento for herself before walking back inside,
and forgetting the whole thing.
She thought about attachment and how it is not good for her health.
The two mementos:
"Whatta Man," by Salt 'N' Pepa
"Into the Great Wide Open" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
She put the tapes in their cardboard sleeves
onto the lazy Susan spice rack in the
cupboard.
It means nothing.
Unless she would like to believe
that the drawings
and the invisible (power) lines among artists
carry the power of metaphysics.