Visual Poetry/Mailart/Fluxux & "Write Now"

Visual Poetry/Mailart/Fluxus in conjunction with "Write Now" can be viewed at the Chicago Cultural Center- 2nd Fl Chicago Rooms. The opening reception was on 9/30/11. It was packed! 
The two exhibits combined show the talent of more than 100 artists. It is a little crowded for my taste but worth to stop by and take some time to view it.


I participated in Fluxus exhibit with a watercolor painting "Within a Thread of Light" as a response to the poem "Tools & Inventions" by Dan Godston. The poem touches a cord in me and resonates with the experience of seeing the decay of my mother's mind to Alzheimer's disease. 

Within a Thread of Light. Watercolor on Paper. Copyright 2011

Tools & Inventions by Daniel Godston

A lump of wool, light-airy, twisted with a weaver’s fingers
into thread, knitted into a sweater, heavy-warm.
Moisture swirls slowly in a cumulus cluster, woven
with condensation bursting into threaded
sheets. Nebular thoughts swirl slowly in a mind cloud,
threads braided by fingers striking a keyboard, F minor chord
with felt-covered hammers to strings in an upright,
an f key hammered to ribbon to 24-pound linen bond sheet,
the words within arm’s length but the world far away.

A computer, that boolean-driven trickster, a folded up
stepladder leaned against a wall by the periodicals section,
a braided hemp rope sliding through a pulley,
a blacksmith’s hammer striking a sheet of iron
folded over a thousand times into a samurai’s sword,
an abacus by a box of sugar-free gum at the checkout
counter, a calligrapher’s pen dipped into an ink
well write now while the page is blank and the mind is bursting
with ideas, the world within arm’s length but the words far away.