Image and Text Class: Dear Sophia

I’ve been reading this blog Kim’s Suitcase and it almost makes me want to write poetry again. I haven’t done it in so long, I don’t know if I still have it in me.

But tonight I decided to post a poem I wrote called Dear Sophia for a class called “Image and Text.” I loved the class, it really pushed me to develop conceptual pieces combining images, both two-dimesional and three-dimensional, with words. Sometimes we started with the words as the source of inspiration, and sometimes the image was the beginning.

Here’s some examples of what we started with: a list, an old found photo, an interview, a journal entry, a chair — but with these simple beginnings it was often interesting to see how differently each person’s work developed. Dear Sophia started as a letter that I eventually printed out on several pages and put into a handmade envelope addressed with art stamps. When I first posted it here in the blog format, it didn’t seem right so instead I’ve turned it into its own set of web pages. You can read it here.