Transition. A word-map of Northumberland AONB coastline.
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- Type: Print
- Production Date: 2006
- Description: Around the turn of the millenium, the artist Alec Finlay began a project involving Renga. This is an ancient Japanese form of writing poems composed of linked verses, written communally. Finlay developed a wooden Japanese style platform and began to invite diverse groups of people to come and sit in the open, developing poetry together.
Finlay explains: 'A completed poem consists of twenty verses. At each round all of the participants are invited to write and read aloud their verse offering. The master poet is always an experienced haiku writer and poetry workshop leader. They are responsible for selecting the verse that best continues the poem. People can enter and leave the event throughout the day, and they are free to watch, until they feel ready to join in. A renga always begins with a seasonal verse responding to the day of its composition; and then passes through all of the other seasons'.
Finlay then starting working with the idea of creating poems of specific places using that form. His 'word-maps' consist of snatches - things seen, overheard, observations. A portrait in words of a landscape with a visual poetic form. This version, focussing on the coastline of Northumbria, was written in collaboration with Linda France. - Dimensions: Unframed 91.3cm H x 63cm W Framed 94cm H x 66cm W
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store
- Related Material: AC/AF/F/6
- Accession Number: 2024.26
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
