Thanks to Poem Atlas for including Leviticus 5 in this stunning exhibit. I am delighted to share the virtual page with fellow visual poets.
Where does escapism fit in? When I work on these pieces, I perform
several repeated actions in Photoshop. I get lost in both the meticulous
nature of the process and the creative possibilities. The pieces I'm
submitting show how colour and layering turn the text into something
material and depart from the original, yet somehow maintain some of its
flavour. I have grapheme synaesthesia so that words, letters and numbers
evoke colour for me. It is a satisfying feeling for me to be able to
match the colours in my head with the tone I perceive from the source
text based on the words and the style of the text. I become mesmerized
in a way. I often keep going until I feel a kind of shiver, as if I've
done something magical, but I don't feel at all as if I'm in control of
the result. I love this feeling.
The Vispo Bible: Leviticus 5 (2017): source text from Biblegateway.com, King James Version. Text translated into visual poetry using Photoshop. I translated the ritual, sin, and blood in this chapter. Something tree like, hard, bare, weathered and bloody resulted.
The Vispo Bible: Leviticus 5 (2017): source text from Biblegateway.com, King James Version. Text translated into visual poetry using Photoshop. I translated the ritual, sin, and blood in this chapter. Something tree like, hard, bare, weathered and bloody resulted.
