Comments on: Visual Poetics 05

By: yawn!

yawn! — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:42:39 +0000

since we’re on the subject of meat, where’s the beef?
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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:44:08 +0000

I confess I was sorry for my wording — it was a compromise from a different response…
Maybe objects — and maybe we are all. We are. Bodies and souls and ideas. But this is not the concern here — it is easy to be easy with provocative images. It is also easy to alienate those unaccustomed to having a voice — easy to make jokes and images at the expense of those used to keeping quiet.
Perhaps the better response would be — how boring! Let’s spice it up. What would the text image say if she could talk? Let’s give her a caption — let’s give her some eyes — let’s give her a partner and see how racy font becomes… I would put an ellipse in her finger tips and an exclamation in her eye. In the meantime she reminds me of the shame of being smacked on the ass.
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By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:59:43 +0000

Jennifer, aren’t all people objects? If we’re not objects, what are we? Ideas? Doubtful. Souls? Even more doubtful.
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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:58:59 +0000

If this was an issue about any group other than women, I really think this conversation would be very different. I’m sorry that men are still so cavalier about putting women down — objectifying and diminishing — it’s a good reality check, though. Thanks.
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By: Andy Dancer

Andy Dancer — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:07:40 +0000

> but we’ve all seen enough naked women
Urm… speak for yourself, dear.
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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:36:41 +0000

I have to say that I wish I didn’t have to look at each time I look at Harriet for the next few days until it recedes into the archives… it reminds me of the controversy over the Fence cover a year or two ago — it may seem witty or hot or something — but we’ve all seen enough naked women. I’m not sold. I’m quite sure there are more innovative conversations transpiring.
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By: Alicia (AE)

Alicia (AE) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:11:17 +0000

I love the idea of “pin-ups” of type faces! This does look very voluptuous (those curvy serifs), text as body and vice versa.
I guess I would call all of this vis-po “calligraphy” rather than poetry, but that is why I think it would be more productive to talk of prose vs. verse rather than poetry, since a broad (Greek) definition of poetry can include all of the arts, all “made things.”
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