Thursday 5th October

Today I decided to take a change from what I have been doing and start to write my own stories/poems in preparation for the creating writing workshop on monday. I want to retain the abstraction and collage concept behind them but use it in a different way. To do this is have collected images to write the poems from.

So instead of using the story to make a picture from, take the pictures to form a story. So effectively using the newspaper as a whole to find the images from, front to back I selected images from todays edition of the Guardian; and created a story that connects the images in an abstract story-telling fashion like before.

I have chosen to do this because I feel that I am more in control for interpreting the images and the language I can use whilst still retaining the boundary of using the images I find.

Further I can make three-dimensional text using cardboard and papier mache so I am not wasting the old newspaper and I can paint onto the text and create settings and scenery and possibly props and characters should I need to if my work goes in that way as I previously envisioned it might. It really depends on how I choose to visually realise my poetry.

My "poetry" that is you understand not "my poetry"