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Calligraphy and poetry in collaboration

10/23/2018

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Works in preparation for 2018 exhibition at the Jewett Gallery, San Francisco Public Library
Changing Places in the Fire by Li-Young Lee

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Section of 35 foot long scroll inspired by Li-Young Lee poem, Changing places in the Fire


Changing Places in the Fire    by Li-Young Lee
1
What’s The Word! she cries
from her purchase on the iron
finial of the front gate to my heart.


The radio in the kitchen
is stuck in the year I was born.
The capitals of the world are burning.

And this sparrow with a woman’s face
roars in the burdened air — air crowded with voices,
but no word, mobbed with talking, but no word,
teeming with speech, but no word — 
this woman with the body of a bird
is shrieking fierce
​buzzed volts

in the swarming babble, What’s The Word!

This evening
is the year of my birth.
The country has just gained its independence.
Social unrest grows rampant as the economy declines.
Under a corrupt government of the army and the rich come
years of mass poverty, decades of starving children
and racially-fueled mayhem. Word is

armed squads raping women by the hundreds. Word is
beheadings, public lynchings, and riots. Word is
burning, looting, curfews, and shoot-to-kill orders.
And word is more deadly days lie ahead.

Today, tomorrow, and yesterday, the forecast calls
for more misery, more poverty, more starvation,
more families fleeing their homes,
more refugees streaming toward every border.

(this is part of the poem's first section. The entire poem can be read or
listened to on the Poetry Foundation website.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/142890/changing-places-in-the-fire

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Double page spread form book version of Changing Places in the Fire   15 x 22 inches, 44 pages
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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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