The Hermit Poet

Feeling a bit adventurous today — or ambitious, I decided to spend a little time reconnecting to my old roots in watercolor.  I’d been obsessed the last few days with this particular idea of blending ink, watercolor, and collage.

This afternoon I sat down with artist pad and took one of my poems (the first half of a piece called “In the Long Dream of Exile”) and cut it into pieces — lines and parts of lines.  As I worked with the ink and watercolor (actually watercolor pencils), I would incorporate the word segments as I went.  In the end, I gravitated toward running roughly left to right with ordering, but it wasn’t initially a conscious decision to do so.

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