#honoluluprintmakers DETAILS: What's the first sign of feeling more comfortable in a location? 4 months back on island and finding a local nonprofit to support with a studio membership. Stay Tuned for more blogging about my new art community. Our mission is simple: to promote the art and culture of printmaking and the appreciation of prints as a unique artform. Our current programs include exhibitions by local printmakers, a community-access studio, workshops and lectures, and year-round outreach." #CO$TOFWAR #MaggsVibo
DETAILS: Experimenting with some "poetry price tags" using conceptualized Thrift Tag physicality and the idea of "Popping Tags" from popular culture. The price from "CO$T OF WAR" (8 with 12 zeros) is taken straight from the Costs of War Project from the Watson Institute Institute & Public Affairs at Brown University. The usage of labels was inspired from the visual poetry of Alec Finlay and others in the vispo scene. More to follow as I will track other costs using medical jargon, pie charts, and other office tools. This is an ongoing experiment using the materiality of uniforms, utilitarian fabrics, and many art techniques. The goal is to complete a book of visual poetry using my war experience as the catalyst. Process: label poems, letter transfers, tracing paper layering and opacity techniques. #penteractpress
DETAILS: Get 25% off some titles before they are out of print. Sale ends 2PM (UK time) Sunday 16th April, 2023 THE BOOK OF PENTERACT for only £24 https://penteractpress.com/store/the-book-of-penteract SCIENCE POEMS for only £6.75 :https://penteractpress.com/store/science-poems REFLECTIONS for only £7.50 https://penteractpress.com/store/reflections #marianchristie #triangles #poetryandmathematics DETAILS: Marian Christie is an amazing poet and (added bonus) a mathematician. You really should listen to Christie in Series 2, Episode 9 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast hosted by Anthony Etherin or follow blogs about all manner of subjects! The poet's work is part of The Book of Penteract (published by Penteract Press) and Pandemic Love and Other Affinities (IceFloe Press). Because both of us have pieces in these two anthologies, I consider us poetry family. Christie is an absolute treasure in the poetry community and someone you can depend on to respond to poetry and poets alike! Christie has a new book out with Penteract Press and I just cannot wait to get my hands on a copy of Triangles. Read the blurbs below and support indie presses! More news to follow regarding Christie's projects releasing later in 2023. Triangles presents a sequence of poems inspired by various types of triangle, presenting also an equally varied array of forms and constraints. #thetickle #issue43 #annamalina #maggsvibo #mariavaz #mikhailzaikanov #kikanicolela
DETAILS: The micro scripts were something I'd worked on since 2012 and were used as the basis for my MALS course shell at Thomas Edison. What a delight to be asked to share them in such an inventive issue of The Tickle with guest editor Anna Malina and featuring Kika Nicolela, Maggs Vibo, Maria Vaz, and Mikhail Zaikanov. #newsletter
DETAILS: We are now on Substack. If you want to make sure you never miss an update, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter. Here is the: LINK #rvb #reversebutcher #VR #XR #digitalmedia #trickhousefilms #danpower #experiment0 #amandaearl #angelhousepress #steelincisorspress #jamesknight DETAILS: Why so many #hashtags? This time around, I am aware ReVerse Butcher is attached to lots of projects with creators from my inner art circle. This particular vispo ("Burning Batteries") is a film which has spacial responses and analysis in conversation with RvB's other award-winning 3D VR/AR/XR artwork(s) and digital media projects in collaboration. Check out projects with Steel Incisors Press by EIC James Knight (see Kaleidoscopic Erasures), NationalPoetryMonth.ca, edited by Amanda Earl, and ("Burning Batteries") produced with Trickhouse Films by EIC and producer an Dan Power. Be sure to check this artist out on her website: www.reversebutcher.com and take a peek at other selected films and distinctions listed in this blog post. This is an artist you should study to see how they evolve and change the landscape of vispo and all things art. Enjoy!! #paperviewindependentbooks
DETAILS: Exciting times in Portugal. Many thanks indeed to Sal Nunkachov for publishing Ashes to Ashes and inviting the work into your events. It's very exciting to see ash poetry projects find the perfect home and be a part of wide-ranging events, books fairs, and book launches by artists I truly admire. #vispo #byMaggsVibo
DETAILS: Y[ear] of the Rabbit is a continuation of my lunar new year vispo Zodiac series started in 2020. My ears (unlike the other art pieces) is wearable art. My family celebrated by treating ourselves to dim sum at Chinatown, snacking on jian dui (fried sesame balls) and feeding money or blessings to the lions during the lion dance. #crowdfundingcampaign DETAILS: Read the message from #AmandaEarl of #AngelHousePress I’m Amanda Earl, the fallen angel of AngelHousePress, a defiant feminist press I established in 2007. After over a decade of publishing chapbooks, we switched to focusing on our online publications only. While publishing chapbooks meant we gave complementary copies to the contributors, and half price on additional copies, we didn't offer compensation to contributors to our online publications. I promised myself that one day, I would change that. #soldout #ticketsnolongeravailable
DETAILS: The Honourable Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the United States and UNITINGUS.ORG, an American nonprofit that uses Integrative Arts to promote healing, wellness, and community invite you to the Allied Arts Exhibition. Artists from the United Kingdom and the United States join together to honor a British/American commitment for peace and to recognize the power of Art to heal both mind and body while building stronger allegiances at the individual, community, and national levels. #canvasrebelmagazine #interviews
DETAILS: Many thanks to Jennifer Salazar, editor of Canvas Rebel Magazine, for interviewing me for an upcoming feature. It was fun to share my work and the reasons I use themes centered around folk horror in my art. It was also a joy to nominate 5 artists I hope to see featured in upcoming issues. Good Stuff! #threeroomspress
DETAILS: A buddy sent me think LINK detailing a submission source. Check out Three Rooms Press and maybe send them some of your work. Support small press.
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DETAILS: My" Skull Diptera" calligram is inside and ready for you! I just finally ordered my copies and cannot wait to share. Hunter Arden, (EIC) is wickedly talented, so be sure to give a follow and support the artist on #Twitter "Lightning Nighthares" are distressed visual poem transfers using original text by Maggs Vibo over "Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches" by William Holbrook Beard (1824-1900) an open domain oil on cardboard.
DETAILS: "Pink" a visual poem in a color series by Maggs Vibo, is slotted to take part in a 2023 exhibition at the Embassy of the United Kingdon in Washington DC at 3100 Massachusetts Ave, NW within the North Star Exhibition Hall. Special thanks to @russell.bennetts for originally publishing part of the series in 2021, @wrbethesda Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for displaying the art, and the @womensmemorial Women in Military Service for America Memorial for the opportunity to perform a spoken word version of this piece at Arlington National Cemetery in 2021. Peace of War: Intertwined Through Art Allied Arts Exhibition is a partnership between artists of @unitingus.org and the embassy. For more info about the exhibition: The Honourable Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the United States and UNITINGUS.ORG, an American nonprofit that uses Integrative Arts to promote healing, wellness, and community invite you to the Allied Arts Exhibition. Artists from the United Kingdom and the United States join together to honor a British/American commitment for peace and to recognize the power of Art to heal both mind and body while building stronger allegiances at the individual, community, and national levels. United we stand! The essence of the allied relations between the United Kingdom and the United States spans the spectrum between war and peace running deeply through political affairs, cooperation in commerce, technology, and in the fundamentals of arts and sciences. Join UNITINGUS.ORG and UK artists in an exhibition celebrating the healing and uniting aspects of therapeutic arts in the exquisite North Star Exhibition Hall. Artworks present the healing and uniting arts and show the personal alignment and commitment to one another. Watch for the release of the Allied Arts online exhibit!" Dissecting and redirecting word combos. Of Note: this site (at one time) registered the name Poemmythologydotcom as a domain name. Later, the combo was registered.
#firstauthor #enheduanna DETAILS: The world's first named author is Enheduanna. Learn more about this Mesopotamian poet, princess, and priestess in the attached lecture and/or an article: BBC. Puabi is also part of the exhibition and lecture featured in this blog post with lecture attached. I have spoken of my time at the Ruins of Ur and visiting the tomb of Puabi in earlier blog posts and in a podcast. It is interesting to note how Enheduanna, a first-person poet & author, relates to the ancient figure Puabi as discussed in my Podcast 1: Cradle to Grave with Women Warriors Throughout the Ages If you've never heard of her, you're not alone. Enheduanna was unknown to modernity altogether until 1927, when the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley excavated objects that bear her name. We now know that her name, in Sumerian, means "Ornament of Heaven", and as the high priestess of the moon deity Nanna-Suen, she composed 42 temple hymns and three stand-alone poems that, like the Epic of Gilgamesh (which is not credited to a named author), scholars consider an important part of Mesopotamia's literary legacy." Great queen of queens, issue of a holy womb for righteous powers, greater than your own mother, wise and sage, lady of all the foreign lands, life-force of the teeming people: I will recite your holy song! True goddess fit for divine powers, your splendid utterances are magnificent. Deep-hearted, good woman with a radiant heart, I will enumerate your divine powers for you! #jennyholzer DETAILS: Innovative artist and true visionary. Check out her work: Jenny Holzer. Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Her medium, whether a T-shirt, plaque, or LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is integral to her work. Starting in the 1970s with her New York City street posters and continuing through her light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor and kindness." #826national #daveeggers #cbs #education #bannedbooks #writingcommunity DETAILS: 20 years of 826 National. A successful nonprofit and why wouldn't it be? CBS Saturday Morning produced a media package discussing banned books, tutors, the school system and some of the other worthwhile projects Dave Eggers is involved in. Check it out here: CBS. What we know: art is a collective effort. We are all part of a story and we enjoy sharing these stories. 826 National amplifies the impact of our national network of youth writing and publishing centers, and the words of young authors. We serve as an international proof point for writing as a tool for young people to ignite and channel their creativity, explore identity, advocate for themselves and their community, and achieve academic and professional success." #yearoftherabbit #vispo #maggsvibo
DETAILS: I have a visual poetry project hopping along into the New Year. Once completed, the vispo will continue my zodiac series. MTF. #pearl #metaphor #davidricho #writingexercises DETAILS: A pearl by any other name... My name translates to Pearl. In fact, the Wat monks made sure I knew the Thai translation as well. And so it is that I identify with the pearl metaphors used in literature. In David Richo (2002) Chapter 2, I came across the following writing exercise, and I think it's a worthwhile task. As 2023 continues, consider the writing prompts on this space, or collect your own to use whenever you need a boost. Your story is worth sharing and leads to lots of pearls. Be the Spark! Consider this commentary on the pearl as a metaphor for pain and its potential to be changed into something beautiful. Then write a poem in response (exploring your memories of pearls or how they figure in your life) or answer the questions I've supplied below" #martinbuber #davidmicho #booktalk
DETAILS: Books are a helpful resource to return to again and again. When I read I/you... it brings to mind, I and Thou. It makes many of us consider Ich und Du by Martin Buber. It conjures thoughts about consciousness. Look at Micho's use of I/you from the attached snippet of How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving. In this sense, the I/you self-talk feels like humanistic psychology. This technique was provided in 2001 and I've never forgotten it, although it wasn't attributed to any one individual. I would like to remedy that for anyone else who needs a technique to deal with a judgmental voice. Follow along with David Richo's Steps as you do the work (I/you) into the 2023. |
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