TONO
limited edition broadside in hand made paper, hand printed by Crater Press
*one poem fragmented across 100 unique sheets, the text at first appears invisible on the surface, only becoming apparent embedded inside when held up to the light
"I have been interested recently in how to share intimacy and express the experiential in poetics in a way that is neither reductive nor exploitative, but that could perhaps be expansive across a channel of communication. For this work, the pages are made from the text itself blended down into fragments of letters, words and phrases that constitute the structure of the material page. Working with my own handmade paper allows me the flexibility to explore alternative ways that text can interact with a surface. I wanted to explore the possibilities and paradoxes of publishing in a way that would retain the intimacy of the content of the poem - something too tender for public visibility. Attempting to avoid both the tendency for alienating abstraction (therefore working against the desire for intimacy) and a problematic 'reveal' factor, the idea was for the pages to be ‘of’ the poem without them necessarily having to display overtly legible print (as per 'normal' page function). I read the poem occasionally in its entirety at reading events - where the object form takes on a certain life or significance in relation to the intimacy of my physical presence in performance, people often like the sense of holding something handmade, and all that carries in terms of shared touch"
limited edition broadside in hand made paper, hand printed by Crater Press
*one poem fragmented across 100 unique sheets, the text at first appears invisible on the surface, only becoming apparent embedded inside when held up to the light
"I have been interested recently in how to share intimacy and express the experiential in poetics in a way that is neither reductive nor exploitative, but that could perhaps be expansive across a channel of communication. For this work, the pages are made from the text itself blended down into fragments of letters, words and phrases that constitute the structure of the material page. Working with my own handmade paper allows me the flexibility to explore alternative ways that text can interact with a surface. I wanted to explore the possibilities and paradoxes of publishing in a way that would retain the intimacy of the content of the poem - something too tender for public visibility. Attempting to avoid both the tendency for alienating abstraction (therefore working against the desire for intimacy) and a problematic 'reveal' factor, the idea was for the pages to be ‘of’ the poem without them necessarily having to display overtly legible print (as per 'normal' page function). I read the poem occasionally in its entirety at reading events - where the object form takes on a certain life or significance in relation to the intimacy of my physical presence in performance, people often like the sense of holding something handmade, and all that carries in terms of shared touch"
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