ekphrastic

One of my ekphrastic ideas came when discussing an artist I love, Kojo Griffin. His work in using childhood imagery--like stuffed animals and anthropomorphic figures--in portraying cruelty and violence helps in facing the violence. I would love to write poetry not only based on the painting but the poetry should do the same--save the reader from re-enacting but representation. I know words can do this, but it's in the figuring out how to do this.

Project for the summer?

Kemper has a piece up through August in their Child's Play exhibit.

https://www.kemperart.org/exhibitions/child’s-play-exploration-adolescence

Using the scene of a playground as the setting for his collage work Freudianslipslideintodarkisms (2011), Donnett illuminates how childhood memories and experiences may directly inform our identities in adulthood. Prior’s Untitled #46 (2004) and Untitled #26 (2005) are based on Freud’s notion that an adult cannot accurately access memories of childhood in the way they were originally experienced. 

Artists in this exhibition depict children’s experiences from varying perspectives that then reflect back on the world. In her photographic work, Julie Blackmon shows real and imagined aspects of her family life by capturing moments when children are crying, revealing a sense of a hectic home environment. Arthur Tress overlays images of children with images of games, school, and activities, again suggesting the Freudian concept that his adult self cannot accurately remember the feelings he originally felt as a child. Artist Kojo Griffin relies on his child psychology training to highlight relationships of children while possibly referencing Freud’s concept of “doubling”—self-love and narcissism found in children—in Untitled (2000). 

Child’s Play links the arts and social sciences to engage viewers in the different ways artists depict childhood. Child’s Play: An Exploration of Adolescence is curated by Jade Powers, assistant curator at Kemper Museum. 

Using the scene
of a playground
as the setting

use phrases and mix up?