Power Failure

Chapter 10-"Creativity is Subtraction"- A. Kleon. This activity has been one of my favourites, it has taught me to see text and writing in a completely different way. For me, being able to take any article or form of writing and to manage to manipulate it through subtraction has been an enlightening experience. Clutter can cloud creativity so when you strip away and take your art to the barest minimum you get the opportunity to see the art in a new form.

As an artist I look for meaning in the work that I do, I believe that my art's purpose is to bring awareness. By stripping away at the article, I unconsciously unveiled the themes that preoccupy me within my art form.

A beautiful aspect about the blackout poem is that it is left open to interpretation, there is no grammar to tell one how it should be read, so the freedom lies within the way one chooses to read the text.

"I answer death After all He saw His opportunities ensure power change passengers protect no system swallow inferiority you believe in Vision bitter knowledge But people cannot present freedom broken people look in my face Struggle is poor protect poverty My head must die."

I wanted to further this thought process, by looking at all the things that surround me in daily life, what are the messages that corporations and institutions are sending me, and with subtraction how I can manipulate the "messages" to form some truth or meaning to me.

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"words should punctuate themselves the words should be the punctuation what you begin with whats in the middle and whats at the end create the form of what you want to say the words are the form"

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