Sunday, 20 July 2014

Mess project #4 - Break the rules (Lilly)

[Note from Lilly - this post and the last are late due to travelling on my part. Apologies - Mess Project #5 should go up on time this Wednesday]

A blackout poem, by Lilly
Left page: a lot of text is scribbled out using blue marker pen, leaving only the words to a poem showing. Right page:  handwritten text is copied below.


Love is dirt and red.
Walk on your dirt.
Fold down the corners of your friends.
Let a friend write
to cover up.

Hey,
I really enjoyed this assignment.
Break the rules.
I think it's a great one to start with, although I think I still went a bit too structured. In later weeks, I want to break free a bit more - even break free of grammatical convention.
Anyway, I had fun.
Can't wait to see what you do with this page!
<3
Lilly

This is the first page that I actually completed. I had a lot of fun replicating the blackout poetry style of Austin Kleon. It was a great one to start with - I wonder what NHNH did with hir version.

This mess completed in North-West England by Lilly.

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