Artistic Motivation - Craft

The Dissertation Series, second cycle, takes the poet to react to art and craft combined, at the Seeing Dragons Exhibition featuring Nora Fok at the Harley Gallery - Worksop, March 2007

Craft

Mind concentrations sat aloft the stand
Obsessions foraged from the land
A thousand seed reductions are given to the need
The Million Dollar Collar by-passes inner greed

Artistic Motivation - Misinformed

The Dissertation Series second cycle is in Spain at The Curve of Destiny Exhibition a poets response to artwork by by Jesûs Mari Lazkano, Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao, March 2007

Misinformed

Why do we need to explain, why do we need to intellectualise? Why do we need to say more about the art, than does the art itself? Does then the explanation become the significant part? Does the explanation, well presented, become the main event?

On the big screen
In the side stream viewing booth
The power of the moving image
The force of multi-media
A darkened space, a mood
A voice with timbre & only
A chosen number to view

No book
No guide
No historical perspective
Outwith of the one performed
For the indiscriminately invited patrons

Understand it my way seems to be the message
Or do not begin to imagine that you understand it anyhow at all

Artistic Motivation - Shadow Machine

The Dissertation Series continues its second cycle of a poets instant responses to art at the Abstraction - Extracting from the World Exhibition, Millennium Gallery - Sheffield, February 2007

Shadow Machine

Tick tock - stop
Please everybody slow down
Let's begin with a whisper
Tip - top, slow-down, stop

A pin point balance, rocking to and fro
The metronome swings towards home
Its shade travels ever so slight behind
For now it is the afterglow

Artistic Motivation - Aged

The Dissertation series second cycle responds to the Sojourn Exhibition featuring Derek Sprawson at the Bend in the River Gallery - Gainsborough, February 2007

Aged

Emeritus, older than fortune, older than tomorrow
Before faith
Deity

Columbine, twisted contortion, further than forever
Beyond hope
Sight

Kingdom of creation, taste of red wine, blue blood
Always with or without
Divinity

Beauties, moods, bittersweet emotions
Exiled by the hostility, lately
Of doubt or light

Artistic Motivation - Line Drawing

The 2nd cycle of the Dissertation Series continues with a response to the Delineate Exhibition featuring Matthew Shelton at Dean Clough Gallery - Halifax, February 2007

Line drawing

Dark and once satanic
Yorkshire art in Yorkshire space
The derelict carpet canvasses rung out
Fettled back into a new loom of life

Not a time to make sense
I too missed my five minutes of fame
It needs more room
Clutter amongst clutter becomes cluttered

Art gallery
Insurance company headquarters
Utilitarian hotel

The exhibition
It will soon be about
Being settled, back here

Art
In place of life