I have always seen my poetry as beyond the page. Here are pieces I have created from torn pages from my poetry book.
What I Want
Do not kiss me with light feather kisses…
A 10x10 acrylic. I used stickers, various metal, dried flowers, and feathers.
Medium- Mixed Media
Type - Poetry, from my book Out of the Weeds page 55.
Created 3/2021
Boundaries
She stands in the corner pretending to be a bookshelf...
A 10x10 canvas with acrylic. Made with recycled magazine, feathers, dried flowers, and metal.
Medium- Mixed Media
Type - Poetry, from my book Out of the Weeds page 96.
Created - 1/2021
Transform
Transform them into a sonnet. Make each freckle...
Made on an 8x10 canvas with acrylic paint, a book binding from 1934, and other various recycled pages, dried pressed flowers and an old key.
Medium - Mixed Media
Type - Poetry, from my book, Out of the Weeds, page 16
Created - 1/2021
So, you know....
I am completely, absolutely from beginning to end...
Created on an 8x8 canvas acrylic, with pressed organics, metal, wax, buttons and recycled paper.
Medium - Mixed Media
Type - Poetry, from my book, Out of the Weeds, page 54.
Created - 1/2021
Talk to Me
I hunger for strange jive...
This is an 8x10 canvas with acrylic, featuring torn pages with various different languages and stamps from around the world. I used pressed flowers and metal.
Medium - Mixed Media
Type- Poetry, from my book, Out of the Weeds, page 22.
Created 1/2021
Permanent Ink
I fall in love with the power...
This is a tiny 6x6 acrylic with thread, peacock feather (broken jewelry) dried flowers, greens, metal. I burned the paper too.
Medium - Mixed Media
Type- Poetry, from my book, Out of the Weeds, page 91.
Created 1/2021
The When
I remember when, the exact instant...
Creating this piece was incredible. I'm so emotional over how it turned out. It felt like I was writing the poem all over again. It is exactly what I envisioned.
10x10 acrylic canvas with metal time pieces, dried flowers, beads from a broken necklace, and CDs I broke with a hammer (very fun)
Medium - Mixed Media
Type - Poetry, from my book, Out of the