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A Pulse Walks in... Hint we know more    or can, or will    than we know

5/29/2015

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This was a collaboration with David Annwn, an Anglo-Welsh poet whom I have worked with on a number of occasions. Most of the past projects have involved  a series of innovative inter-medial responses to each other's work.  Usually these procedures featured one of us making an initial contribution and the other responding to this in turn in a successive sequence. In February 2015 we mutually agreed to follow a new method where I started the process with a few initial marks, to which David wrote lines of poetry on a different page.  I  then returned returned to my initial page with a  further drawing  response. This back and forth process  was repeated eight times, resulting in one final drawing and a poem. Each stage of the process has been recorded and assembled in a small booklet which is a unique record of its own creation. The stages of the project follow below. Beginning June 1, successive stages will be added daily.
 
S T A G E  O N E
Picture
       


         a pulse walks in
         slowly unfolding
 
         a torsion, a branch
 
          whirl open
          shimmer

S T A G E  T W O 
Picture
                                                                 


             a scatter tracK
             leaps into scintilla

              and minutiae
              glitter
              in surface calm


S T A G E  T H R E E
Picture
        


             co-ordinates
             emerging  say
   
             a known street corner
              intersect, a
              hazard purchase

              on memory
              where air or water

              working through
              at intervals


              is given way
                                                                                                                                                      




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

S T A G E  F O U R
Picture
 


 


      hail-stones ricochet
      off steps
      of the words

    downpour and thrash
    off where we

    must climb
    past the sleeping
    wisp of bush -
                                                                                                                                                      
    almost missed –
    which out-waits weather                                                                                                                                                          
    waits to flourish
                                                                                                                                                             




                                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                               

S T A G E  F I V E
Picture



 sudden


 phrases flung outwards
  half-formed
  and blurred

 hidden coherences
  keyboards
  vocabularies,                                                                                                              


sensed –unheard -frequencies
 as when the orders
hemming speech
                                                                                         hint we know more
 or can, or will
 than we know       

S T A G E   S I X
Picture





       lexes instilled
       with cyclonic variegates

        the scape shudders
        with flashes and

        sails, their foundries
        circumvent

         the speakers,
         verbal yields

          to the struck 
          conductor, an eddy
          gales in after-images

S T A G E  S E V E N

Picture
                                                     




a scattergram
the upheld ciphers
opening over

masses, cities
lit air, pollution

clearing in
windshields
the data and radial

breezes cooling
from high atmosphere
freshening out



                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                              



S T A G E  E I G H T

Picture




as fragments
disperse

aerated
gold
rushes in 
spirals
through



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Cafe Chronicles March 2015

5/19/2015

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Cafe Chronicles,  March,  2015
Calligraphy and Drawings by Thomas Ingmire
San Francisco, CA,  2013
Unique Book
5.5 x 7.5 inches,  29  pages

There are some month's when all I have to show is my book of morning drawings. April was one of those months, thus the post of the March Cafe Chronicles.  Most of the drawings in this book explore a relationship to the edges of the page. A word or two, usually from one of David Annwn's poems, has been incorporated into the  drawings. My interest was in executing the words in the same character, with simple line and contrasting solid shapes, as the drawings of the faces. 
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