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Drawing The Six Directions

Drawing The Six Directions

Tabios, Eileen R.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1736816098
ISBN13: 9781736816097
Publisher: Harrykstammer
Published: Mar 1 2024
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Eileen R. Tabios began her Poems Form/From the Six Directions partly because she was trying to create a poem in a new way. Creating mixed-media sculptures whose processes engendered verse-poems fit that impetus. But, unexpectedly, the sculpting process made her focus for the first time on working with physical material. As a writer working with imagination and words, she was surprised by the pleasurable frisson of dealing with the tangible as found materials made their way into her mixed-media sculptures. Such materials included old coasters, used magazines, ribbons, recycled cardboard, department store shopping bags, and so on. The sculpting process created a simmer in her belly, like the physical effect she often feels when chasing down a poem into written form. She, therefore, decided to try her hand at working more consciously as a visual artist. She hadn't intended to go this route but allowed herself to follow the impulse because such an opening manifested what she considers wonderful about all Art and Poetry: how they lead its maker and viewer/reader into new experiences. She would end up creating about a dozen sculptures before sculpting led her to drawing.

Her drawings and sculptures were just part of Six Directions, a multidisciplinary and

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