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Calligraphy and poetry in collaboration

8/25/2016

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Works in preparation for 2018 exhibition 
at the Jewel Gallery, San Francisco Public Library
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Ars Poetica:
Empsonics including a remark by George Saintsbury

I can’t remember who predicted the fancy damage.
Seeing where a noise is coming from
helps. It helps the ‘cry’ in lyric when it is well managed.


​Epic isn’t for you if you don’t like carnage.
An English fountain won’t play after 5pm
even though you’ve bought your ticket. Fancy damage


to a country house and call it Carthage:
​a fountain though a pen when a swan but the museum

turns musician as the night wears on. Carnage

is a joy in an epic and the fanciest damage.
Seeing noises will show you where an owl is coming from.

It helps the ‘cry’ in lyric when it is well managed.

Alan Halsey

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Calligraphy and Poetry in Collaboration

8/8/2016

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Works in preparation for 2018 exhibition 
at the Jewel Gallery, San Francisco Public Library

LUTE POEM, BY ROBERT BRINGHURST
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      LUTE POEM
      The first manoeuvre to master in tuning
      the lute is to want without wanting:
      to wish without wishing, to fish
      and the hunt without fishing and hunting:
      to burst through the door, asking
      for everything, yes, and for nothing:
      to learn how to hope, not to hope for;

     to open the door neither inward
     nor outward: unlatch and unhinge
     and unglue and unmortise
     the door, returning the wood
     to the tree where it grew
     and the lock and the key to the barstock,
     the ingot, the slurry, the ore;

     and to take out the windows and pull
     down the walls and replace them
     with doorways and doorways and doorways,
     the jambs short and tall, the lintels
     and sills of different proportions -
     some wider, like octaves and fifths,
     and some slimmer, like seconds and thirds.
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    I I like the words of the poet, Juan Ramon Jimenez, "if they give you lined paper, turn it sideways." For calligraphy to become relevant in the modern world, it seems to me that it must embrace the ideas behind these words. The works in this section of the website will represent my endeavors to explore new boundaries. 

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