Category Archives: Ars Poetica

Zentangle #26 Permission

Posted on March 29, 2017 | Leave a comment

Permission

I believe we’re
allowed to ask
to become a child
of creation
and earth

 

This was written for a colleague who is leaving so it’s not for sale. A little different in the style than normal but similar in style to the raven zentangle.

Leave a comment

Posted in Ars Poetica, Creativity

Tagged , , , , , ,

Zentangle #25 Betrayal

Posted on March 26, 2017 | 1 comment

Betrayal

I remember feeling
your tongue taste
cold, hot, wet, dry, smooth, rough
at the edge of 
betrayal 

 

(I had forgotten to post this piece when I created it and only came across it this afternoon when I was sorting out my art folder after having posted an earlier one. Therefore the numbering is out of sequence in line with it’s construction date; it should be #24.)

This piece is for sale $15AUS (inc postage to anywhere in the world). For an extra $2AUS you can get a set of zentangle postcards.

zentangle-postcards

If you wish to purchase this piece, leave a message in the comments and I will get in touch with you via the email address you use when posting a comment.

Calico tote bags featuring “Coloured Pencils” and “Stupid Question” and postcards are available for sale HERE.

1 Comment

Posted in Ars Poetica

Tagged , , , , , ,

Zentangle #24 Breathe

Posted on March 26, 2017 | Leave a comment

Breathe

in the firmament
of the great design
you glimpse yourself as
flesh and blood
earth and water.
But breathe
because you’re human

 

 

This piece is for sale $15AUS (inc postage to anywhere in the world). For an extra $2AUS you can get a set of zentangle postcards.

zentangle-postcards

If you wish to purchase this piece, leave a message in the comments and I will get in touch with you via the email address you use when posting a comment.

Calico tote bags featuring “Coloured Pencils” and “Stupid Question” and postcards are available for sale HERE.

UPDATE: This piece is now SOLD. (Going have to be quick for the next one).

Leave a comment

Posted in Ars Poetica

Tagged , , , , , ,

Post It Note Poetry 2017 Part 2

Posted on February 24, 2017 | Leave a comment

Curating the next instalment of Post It Note Poetry. There’s a few more days left of the month so I’ll see how I go.

Stranger

image

Words

image

Dyptych 1

image

Dyptych 2

image

A Kite’s Construction

image

Misinterpretation 

image

Untitled

image

Collaboration

image

Sand

image

Leave a comment

Posted in Ars Poetica, Post It Note Poetry

Tagged , , , , ,

Post It Note Poetry 2017

Posted on February 7, 2017 | Leave a comment

Post It Note Poetry began in 2013. It began as a dare. Since then, each February you will find people grabbing a pile of Post It Notes, a pen and permission to write, scribble, opine, wield, and bleed poetry. 

You can find this year’s start up on Sean Wright’s blog HERE. Sean is a brilliant poet.

I haven’t been up to date this year but here are my current offerings. Please excuse the dodgy images as the camera on my phone is cactus and dirty. Maybe I should run it through a few filters and declare it “arty”.

Follow the hashtag #pinp17 on Twitter or Instagram. See you there.

img_20170207_221631

img_20170206_184436

img_20170203_125738

img_20170201_213119

Leave a comment

Posted in Ars Poetica, Post It Note Poetry

Tagged , , , , ,

Zentangle #22 The Great Mistake

Posted on January 17, 2017 | Leave a comment

image

image

The Great Mistake

grown ups want to
not forget
the great mistake
they were little children
who were tempted to grow
out of childhood 
you’ve heard all this before

This piece is for sale $15AUS (inc postage to anywhere in the world). For an extra $2AUS you can get a set of zentangle postcards.

zentangle-postcards

If you wish to purchase this piece, leave a message in the comments and I will get in touch with you via the email address you use when posting a comment.

Also check out
* Zentangle #20 Patched Together Plasticine. For sale HERE.
* Zentangle #21 Looking Glasses. For Sale HERE.
Calico tote bags featuring “Coloured Pencils” and “Stupid Question” and postcards are available for sale HERE.

Buy TWO zentangle pieces for $25 (inc. postage anywhere in the world).

Leave a comment

Posted in Ars Poetica

Tagged , , , , , ,

Zentangle #21 Looking Glasses

Posted on January 16, 2017 | Leave a comment

image

image

Looking Glasses

eyes are
a looking-glass
see
and imagine another world
and wonder
“Have you been here before?”

This piece is for sale $15AUS (inc postage to anywhere in the world). For an extra $2AUS you can get a set of zentangle postcards.

zentangle-postcards

If you wish to purchase this piece, leave a message in the comments and I will get in touch with you via the email address you use when posting a comment.

Also check out Zentangle #20 Patched Together Plasticine.
For sale HERE.
Calico tote bags featuring “Coloured Pencils” and “Stupid Question” and postcards are available for sale HERE.

Buy TWO zentangle pieces for $25 (inc. postage anywhere in the world).

Leave a comment

Posted in Ars Poetica

Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Finding Meaning Between The Black Lines

Posted on December 20, 2016 | Leave a comment

Blackout poetry, or erasure poetry, is unique in that you are working with a predetermined set of words. You can blackout or erase as much or as little as you like. Form new words and phrases from what exists.

But what does it mean? A recent conversation with creative collaborators posed this question and one suggestion was that blackout poetry was a search for meaning. Firstly as individual; secondly for the audience. 

I compose firstly for myself, then for an audience. However the text also exists independent of me as creator. 

With that in mind, I took the initial post that sparked this discussion and made three erasure poems. Each time I looked for something different; another angle, a change of perspective. 

For these I copied the text into a document and used the highlighter tool. Hence some fragment spaces.

There were a couple of words or phrases I returned to, a focal point or locus for writing but I had to deliberately move away from them to forge something new.

Was I looking for something of myself in the poetry? I am not sure. Sometimes there is an identification with the text. At other times it is an enjoyment of the construction of language. While perhaps it is also a disquieting of the soul and heart when darker ideas and phrases emerge.

I don’t think there is a clear answer to the question. If anything, the new text raises more questions. Questions that may have an answer or questions that may provoke a dialogue.

I’ll leave the answers up to you.

#1 Traces of Light

screen-shot-2016-12-18-at-10-09-30-pm

#2 Stillness and Shenanigans 

screen-shot-2016-12-18-at-10-19-16-pm

#3 The Countless Hours

screen-shot-2016-12-18-at-10-42-14-pm

Leave a comment

Posted in Ars Poetica, Creativity

Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Zentangle #19 Dissolving

Posted on December 19, 2016 | 3 comments

image

DISSOLVING

the thought of
gradually dissolving
is to 
lose faith in 
the flesh and blood
beneath the skin

 

If you would like to purchase the original piece above, it is yours for $10 (inc. postage and handling to anywhere in the world). Drop me a note in the comments and I’ll be in contact. It will be mounted and signed.

UPDATE: The piece is now SOLD.
You can buy postcard prints of a selected range of zentangle pieces or purchase a calico tote bag featuring Coloured Pencils HERE.

3 Comments

Posted in Ars Poetica

Tagged , , , , , ,

Today I Heard Fear

Posted on December 18, 2016 | 1 comment

Today I heard fear. 
It whispered. 
It did not speak loudly with
a stinging sleight 
or a shouted accusation.
It whispered
like a door creaking in the wind.
The subtle background noise
skirting the edges of conversation
sweeping in on wisps of wind
slipping in between the silences
of background noise so cleverly filtered out
until the static idly coalesced and said,
“You cannot do this.
Do not dream or imagine.
It’s too hard.”
It’s only when I take up my pen
and write and bleed and weep
that the fear disappears.

1 Comment

Posted in Ars Poetica

Tagged , ,