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(1136) Sam Kemp - and the Pussy-Cat
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About this artwork
and the Pussy Cat is a response to Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, more specifically, its reproduction in Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia (1950). It’s an attempt at a collaborative process with Photoshop, the end result relying on the unpredictable scattering, aligning and manipulation of specific functions of the design software. The piece ended up forming three poems, the first of which is decided by the position of the images, with half the content obscured. The second is the most obvious leftover from something of the original draft of the piece, a separation of the nouns and verbs of the poem. I wanted to cast them adrift and isolate the movements of the verbs. They’re vague and broad, whereas the explosion of nouns floating the boat are specific, but bereft of movement. The final poem leans most on Lear’s original and I wanted to end on one of his simple and striking images.
About Sam
Sam Kemp is an experimental poet and digital artist from the South West of England. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth and is widely published. His practice is influenced by the Situationist theories of detournement and derive, as well as contemporary visual and experimental poetic techniques. He’s interested in creating work in collaboration with design software and using found materials in order to consider the materialism of language, and the language in objects. He’s also interested in the walking practices of psychogeography and mythogeography, and the relationship between a walking-based performance and its influence on the ’drift’ of words across the page. This practice extends to the archives, where he finds much of his research material by wandering through the landscape of digitalised and physical records of the past. He’s a graduate of the University of Gloucestershire’s Creative Writing programme, and holds a PhD from the University of Plymouth (UK).
Link to Sam’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Sam was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 9
A Childrens Treasury of Verse-Little Masterpieces of Today and yesterday.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
and the Pussy Cat is a response to Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, more specifically, its reproduction in Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia (1950). It’s an attempt at a collaborative process with Photoshop, the end result relying on the unpredictable scattering, aligning and manipulation of specific functions of the design software. The piece ended up forming three poems, the first of which is decided by the position of the images, with half the content obscured. The second is the most obvious leftover from something of the original draft of the piece, a separation of the nouns and verbs of the poem. I wanted to cast them adrift and isolate the movements of the verbs. They’re vague and broad, whereas the explosion of nouns floating the boat are specific, but bereft of movement. The final poem leans most on Lear’s original and I wanted to end on one of his simple and striking images.
About Sam
Sam Kemp is an experimental poet and digital artist from the South West of England. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth and is widely published. His practice is influenced by the Situationist theories of detournement and derive, as well as contemporary visual and experimental poetic techniques. He’s interested in creating work in collaboration with design software and using found materials in order to consider the materialism of language, and the language in objects. He’s also interested in the walking practices of psychogeography and mythogeography, and the relationship between a walking-based performance and its influence on the ’drift’ of words across the page. This practice extends to the archives, where he finds much of his research material by wandering through the landscape of digitalised and physical records of the past. He’s a graduate of the University of Gloucestershire’s Creative Writing programme, and holds a PhD from the University of Plymouth (UK).
Link to Sam’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Sam was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 9
A Childrens Treasury of Verse-Little Masterpieces of Today and yesterday.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Artist:
Sam KempMedium:
Visual PoetryDimensions:
A4Price:
20 EUR