Project 7:
Memesis 2013: A Broadside Collaboration
Gouache on paper
We were each given a poem, written by a student from the Introduction to Creative Writing class. We were to paint something based on that poem, and we later scanned in the paintings and set the poem text over them. I will upload the piece with the poem once I relocate the file for it. Once everyone had set the poem type onto their paintings, the images were printed out, and we each got a trade portfolio of everyone's piece.
The poem that inspired this painting:
Stranger
By Amber Keim
The sun rises
On this town
Before me I see
Everything
The locals sit
On their porches like
Weathered mountains
Memories reach back
Into forever
Passed through
Generations
I walk and
They see me
A stranger in their
Midst
Eyes that have
Seen all
Watch me
Fearful
Whispers can be heard
Who? Where?
And most of all
Why?