Poem Roots - The root casting photographed outside the historical building below a long unused mail slot, evoking the decline of the materiality in the hand written word.
Poem Roots - The root casting photographed outside the historical building below a long unused mail slot, evoking the decline of the materiality in the hand written word.
UpSideDown Poem - The form was created backwards to allow the final root casting to read properly. Seeds were sewn under grow lights.
UpSideDown Poem - The form was created backwards to allow the final root casting to read properly. Seeds were sewn under grow lights.
Sprouts - The first blades of grass appear despite the windowless, sterile gallery environment.
Sprouts - The first blades of grass appear despite the windowless, sterile gallery environment.
Towards the Sun - Grass seed grows straight up towards the light.
Towards the Sun - Grass seed grows straight up towards the light.
Poetic Growth - Wheat grass has many health benefits.
Poetic Growth - Wheat grass has many health benefits.
Poem Grass Shag - Grass so tall it obliterates the word. Nature takes over.
Poem Grass Shag - Grass so tall it obliterates the word. Nature takes over.
Root Casting - Once flipped over the word is revealed.
Root Casting - Once flipped over the word is revealed.
Poetize - Playing the poet in the dirt. Side view of the letter P with it's green fringe.
Poetize - Playing the poet in the dirt. Side view of the letter P with it's green fringe.

Poem

Poem was a grass text planted in the Touchstone Gallery in Nelson BC during the SALT: The Distillation of Matter exhibition curated by Deborah Thompson. The origin of the word Poem is derived from the Latin poēma and the Greek poiēma, meaning composed, created or made. The intent was to produce a root casting of the word poem; exposing the roots of language. Here the verses are written in the tangle of fine rhizomes as a visceral homage to the earth itself.

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