Cut-up Poems (2021-2022)
I’ve long been inspired to free words from their original containers and rearrange them to form new ideas. What new promises can arise? What else can be revealed? In this project, I created a series of text arrangements that I shared as cut-up poems. These short text pieces continue my experimentation with word combinations intended to instill surprise and curiosity in the reader.
I sourced most of the text from magazines. For the backgrounds, I used images, visuals, art, and photographs from magazines, advertisements, books, as well as natural surfaces and textures around my home.
Select poems from this series are below.
Blackout Poems (2020)
During the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, I created a series of blackout poems while reading Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. These poems seek to forge new connections between words and ideas that extend beyond the text at hand, alerting the reader to the idea that knowledge is relative, surprising, and both incredibly intimate and undeniably boundless.
Select poems from this series are below.
