Words, words, words

[Background improv for today ]

Probably no one.

Now it is so easy

to put words, images, sound

out there,

there are now more writers

than readers [fact]

Who/what are we writing for?

Write to find out what is right

or to maintain what is wrong--

what right is that?

Words, words, words

If everyone with a thought

picture, photo, sound--

journals in the new media
Where is the art?

“a computer screen produces nothing but electronic impulses. Press a key and
it's all gone, press a few others and it's radically changed.”

Is what is collaged together
More than the some [intended]
Of its parts
Or just parts shuffled together
sometimes?

Maybe its just juggling concepts

See "Concrete Poetry: fun with letters and concepts"

Copy and paste--

What’s the difference from plagiarism?

Encorporation

He swallowed me whole
Then wondered why
He has
a stomach ache.

Where’s the beef?

Is it too small

or not small enough
to digest
into your own?

The new Trashcan School of Art,
Garbage in, garbage out
Or can you make a sow’s ear
into a silk purse?

J.H.Poincare (1854-1912), (cited in H.E.Huntley, The
Divine Proportion, Dover, 1970)
The mathematician does not study pure
mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he
delights in it because it is beautiful

See more of my art at Best of Colorado Art Festival Sept 17 and 18 North side of Canyon at 10th Street in downtown Boulder, CO

What happened to

Aesthetics in contemporary art?

Is the beautiful dead?

What happens when the concept

is more important

Than the object conceited?

Is it just the conceit

Of the author.

Maybe what we need
is less words

Digital Sonnet 2001

John G. Young