The Goddess Fortune: To Proper Is To Die

I am a visual artist who uses a variety of media to explore feminist themes and the self. My approach to both art and poetry is the same; collage. I find images or words I am innately attracted to, cut them out, arranging and rearranging until I find the perfect picture. I am heavily influenced by the found object; discarded magazines, the sky in a piece of junk mail, the still frame of a paused movie, the shape of a scrap of paper, any likeness or shape that calls to me. I consider the images of prehistoric goddess figurines, paramount and central to my own art, as a found object; Something someone was compelled to create that was lost or discarded, then found again. My poems are inspired by the found word; fortune cookies, passing billboards, my teenage diaries, made up and mis-heard songs, overheard conversations, grocery lists, and all other manner of words heard or seen in serendipitous encounters. I use collage to create a sacred space for these images and words, ancient and new. I feed myself found words and images; digesting, reconstructing, honoring form and phrase, creating a sacred place for each, and then gluing every one down in its rightful place.

Author: Rl Edmondson Vance
Publisher: Blurb
Published: 05/19/2023
Pages: 38
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.10d
ISBN13: 9781958661031
ISBN10: 1958661031
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
- Photography | General