Class Notes 11/14

Thinking about combining text and visual content, we considered:

  1. palimpsest
  2. ekphrasis/ ekphrastic poetry
  3. collage poetry
  4. found poetry
  5. blackout poetry
  6. concrete poetry
  7. diastic poetry

Try one of these! How might you use any of these techniques to bring text into your Ways of Seeing collection?

As we consider your creative motivations and expression as designers, we can ask what we call the statement you write to express those aspects of your creativity and vision.

Let’s read together this December 2011 multi-part inquiry into the subject:

“What is a Designer Statement?: Reinfurt, Goggin, Dixon”

 

Diastic

The word me and Nathaniel had was diastic, I chose this word because I think it is a unique word.

Diastic is a word coined by Jackson Mac Lowfrom the Greek words “dia” (through) and “stichos”(a line of writing, a verse). He termed it as deterministic method that relied on the use of two texts

https://poetrydish.blogspot.com/2009/02/forms-of-poetry-diastic.html

Example: Major Concern for Squatters, Major Concern
1 2345 1 23 4 567 123 1 2 34 567 89 1 2345 1 23 4 567

 

Click here to read the poem if you’re interested.