Thursday, December 17, 2009

POST NO. 2: IN WHICH the dog prince returns to the great metropolis.






POST NO. 1: IN WHICH I introduce my assignment, and through a three-word poem imply my reasons for doing it.


This is a blog about words. I collect words. I find them in signs: on metal poles jutting out of the sidewalk, on the ground, on the sides of buildings, in manuals, on tee shirts. I snatch them from the environment and make them into pictures. Cropped and reassembled, like collage, these bits of the world create new landscapes of meaning. These are my sign-poems.

I have nearly two hundred sign pictures now clogging my profile on Facebook. Recently I started developing these pictures and arranging them in physical frames, but that got expensive. A blog is free! With a blog you can arrange pictures in order! A blog is the perfect format for my sign-poems. I hope you enjoy them.