ANNE
Handmade paper, encaustic, binders board, fluorescent lights, & mixed media.
Anne Sexton and her words captured me as I studied the relationship between women and creativity. She was an awful person: impulsive, ego-centric, infantile, abusive, dependent, promiscuous. Yet, despite her self-proclaimed madness, she created astonishing poetry. She mined the unconscious, producing poems full of the vernacular, the vulgar and metaphor. The power of her words to stitch her life together, at least for a time, still echo in the hearts of her readers today.
Poems and music for random performance. Panties, music and Cagean chance combine to make this new edition. The I-Ching was cast on a daily basis as the panties were chosen and written about for the day. Musical values were assigned to each line of the I-Ching and "plunked -out" in the computer notation program for various instruments. The I-Ching casts were interpreted and combined in unexpected ways with the panty writings to create this edition that is both book and performance. The measures of music may be combined in any order to create your own unique symphony. An enclosed CD lets you listen to one possible version.