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Monday 28 March 2011

Artistic Motivation - Real to Reel

The Dissertation Series, in its second cycle sees the poet respond to Degree Show Open featuring Various Artists graduating from their BA (Hons) Fine Arts at University of Lincoln, Greestone Center, Lindum Hill - Lincoln, May 2007

Real to Reel

A sense of refined chaos, as if your fathers jam jar, full of screws and nails and picture hooks had been scattered on the floor, over an ordnance survey map of Lincolnshire and beyond

There was a plan, and a classy catalogue
Even so, as an exercise in disorientation
It was fabulously successful

Guys in high leg turned over leather boots
A sop to the roundheads
Or the cavaliers

Street scenes layered with a palette knife
To lift the slippery sloppy pavement
From the oily doily canvas

Unreeled cassette tape is nailed to the wall
A loop-less but continuous story
With the obligatory I don't give a fuck