Wednesday 7 August 2019

VISPRO versus VISPO

A new body of work intended for my upcoming solo exhibition titled 15 Letters to Spring got me thinking about the difference between: visual + poetic structures = vispo and visual + prose structures = VISPRO.  Surely there must be a difference. There appears to be no distinction between any genres - asemic writing/visual narrative/make that MOST things! Its something I'm trying to formulate in my OWN mind and I know there are others who are not comfortable (but accepting) of their work being called vispo - I KNOW very little of what I produce is related to visual+poetry.  Hence a new group of Facebook - it may amount to nothing, but I am seeing some things which are making my own thinking clearer - and we all have to start SOMEWHERE??  I have layered each painting (a series of them with 15 laters of VISPRO) - here is the first one I started and completed, working backwards - the painting (1.5m X 1m, 7 layers acrylic paint, 8 layers oil paint on stretched canvas).
Letters to the Lost.
Letter 15- Letter to the Lost Who are Found

Letter 14 - Letter to the Lost who are being Found

Letter 13 - To the Lost Who are Lost

Letter 12 - Lost Children

Letter 11 - Letter to the Lost

Letter 10 - Lost Battles

Letter 9 - To Those Lost in Flight

Letter 8 - Lost Language 

Letter 7 - Lost Love

Letter  6 - Lost Faith

Letter 5 - Lost Voices

Letter 4 - Lost Moments

Letter 3 - Lost Mothers

Letter 2 - Lost Daughters

Letter 1 - Lost Innocence