Literally creating imagery, Imagery created literally Creative Commons: Attributed-non commercial, share alike 3.0 unported (This is not a FREE Cultural License)
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Thursday, December 6, 2018
A poem prompted by a Lothar Kirsh photograph. A Poetsphotoprompt, from the Poets the Original Community
sunsets falling reign
dripping drooling fading
autumn leaves
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Sunday, November 18, 2018
Alyeskan Interior, for BOOK III
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Friday, October 12, 2018
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Monday, October 8, 2018
Sunday, October 7, 2018
Friday, October 5, 2018
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Alyeskan Interior #53 From Beyond ~ The Alyeskan Interior ~ A Way of Being
Friday, September 28, 2018
I thought I would begin posting the content of my new book entitled “Beyond ~ The Alyeskan Interior ~ A Way Of Being”. I’ll try to post a page most everyday. Here is a link http://www.blurb.com/b/8947783-beyond-the-alyeskan-interior-a-way-of-being
to the book along with a short preview. This book is the first of two, the second will be published by xmas.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Another “Up the Mtn” excerpt #257
Monday, August 13, 2018
Another “Up the Mtn” excerpt #258
sticky tree sap
drying . . . cool breeze
falling . . . autumn begins
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Friday, August 10, 2018
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Friday, June 29, 2018
Thursday, June 28, 2018
On the eve of a Supreme Court Shake-up
Back to the future
Roe vs Wade
grabbin em by the pus%y
judicial abortion
bringin back the wire hangers
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Monday, June 25, 2018
Alyeskan Interior #244
smokes meandering
through a restless mind
till ice evolves in water
mud clod plops into a pond
behold the thoughtless mind
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
An excerpt from an up coming book
In regards to this hand painted and photoshopped image I created. The image is unique and transforms the meaning and context of the two iconic album cover images. The images are of Miles Davis’s Tutu album, released in1986, and John Coltrane’s Blue Train album released in 1958. This Photo Haiku’s (Haiga) poem references Miles Davis’s Green Dolphin Street, released in 1958 as well. In 1960 and on tour Miles recorded it again with Coltrane as well. The haiku poem I wrote as part of the image juxtaposes the two visual components. In doing so I believe I’ve created an art piece that is uniquely transformative. This art piece (photo haiga) creates a distinct meaning and context, which transform the original images in a unique manner.
After Miles recorded this songs in 1958 it became a Jazz standard. Since then over one hundred Jazz musicians (Coltrane included) have recorded their own renditions of it. How is this relevant to my blending my poem with two iconic images that are symbolic of Jazz music and these musicians? Well it is because this is my lyrical and visual reinterpretation or rendition of not just an iconic song, images, or film (On Green Dolphin Street”), but instead a uniquely transformative visual piece of artwork.
Annnie Lennox recorded her interpretation of a Billie Holiday jazz standard in 2014, “Strange Fruit”. The artistic medium, format, meaning, and statement were all the same, even though the context was slightly different. Lennox was reinterpreting Holiday’s 1939 re-interpretation of elements of another piece of artwork. Artwork from another artistic medium, with the same meaning and statement were paraphrased from Abel Meeropol. Meeropol was the poet and lyricist who wrote “Strange Fruit” as a poem. Holiday & Lennox both took what was a poem and transformed recognizable elements of it, its meaning, statement, and for the most part it’s context, from the literary artistic format (a poem) into a musical one.
I am doing much the same, reinterpreting (from a musical context), honkadoring (from a Japanese Poetic Haiku context), and thus creating my own visual & literary artwork, not just reinterpretations or renditions as Holiday & Lennox did. Instead, I’ve created a uniquely transformative artistic statement. Transformative in the sense that I took not one but three distinctly individual pieces of art work and created a novel one with a unique element of my own, the haiku poems format, this literary format is in part what creates this art pieces unique context, meaning, and critical statement of the other visual elements of my art piece. Two of the three components (poem, & 2 images) of my transformative artistic statement are derived from Miles & Coltrane’s images and music (Green Dolphin Street) which were hand painted & photoshopped into a kind of polyrhythmic visual and literary statement. This uniquely transformative statement creates a uniquely transformative meaning (unity, which defies the uniformity of the images & words) I incorporated into my piece.
Truly, this is a question of subjective interpretation. I can see how some might erroneously interpret it as strictly a derivative work, and a transformative work by others. It is not my intention to infringe upon the copyright of the labels, photographers, or artists estates. This is why I digitally manipulated, hand painted, and incorporated a haiku poem into what I perceive as my own transformative creation of my unique artistic statement, one. Whose context and meaning is yes unified with elements of these images but still not uniform in how it presents the elements of these iconic jazz symbols. Thus, I am not merely deriving from other pieces of copyrighted artwork. Instead, I believe I am infusing elements of them into a unique new context with a uniquely unifying meaning, one that in turn created this transformative artistic statement.
The images and the way I incorporated them into my Photo Haiga are part of another cultural and artistic version of a musician reinterpreting a jazz standard, which these images are in separable from, I speak of the Japanese art of honkadori in poetry.