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| RTomens, 2023 |
This piece comprises of torn and cut old newspaper with added acrylic paint, then collaged. It was pure chance that the words 'A poet' appeared.
Are you a poet?
No.
A concrete poet?
Maybe.
A visual poet?
Maybe.
I don't really like attaching the word 'poet' to any of my typed work although I'm fully aware of what can pass for 'vispo' these days (a leaf with, um, a letter on it).
Here's me being stubbornly old-fashioned by insisting (to myself) that any 'visual' poetry should prominently feature either letters or text.
I blame the avant-garde...for everything...daring to suggest, nay, insist, that Art can be 'anything' - huh!
I know some people for whom even paintings which dare to smudge figuration (Mr Bacon, yes you!) aren't 'proper' Art.
Some say you shouldn't need 'educating' when it comes to appreciating Art - you just like it or you don't. Oh the old explaining conundrum! In one sense, that's true, but in another, it's nonsense, obviously, because it's apparent that those who don't 'get' certain types of Art have no historical understanding of it, no context, no sense of historical development. And they don't want any. Then there's a matter who simply 'seeing' and 'getting it', just because you do. Perhaps that comes naturally. Either way, ignorance is not bliss.
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