Abstract
This article is an exemplar of arts-based educational research that uses ekphrastic poetics as a vehicle for critically storytelling. Ekphrastic poetics is an art form dating back to Classical Greece that involves an act of poetic response to a visual form. Ekphrastic poetics is conceptualized as a curriculum and aesthetic text as poet Kelly Young responds to visual artist Mahshid Farhoudi-Di Marco’s series of paintings through interpretive practices. Interpretive practices involve building relationships with the visual forms through among other things, conditioned writing activities.
Highlights
“A Study” Mahshid Farhoudi-Di Marco Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, a little syntax make a clearing in the silence
Writing Myself into History I absorb lessons from the classroom move toward seeing the world anew inhale each moment lecture halls students, texts rework ruins of inherited scripts bear witness to courage that flows through bursts of writing poetry is a rope that binds us shared language across tongues tying knots into ideas woven through poetic research the body remembers aching wrists musty library stacks rhythms of key strokes pulsating on the alphabet as words color the body, mind and soul
The artists engaged in a process of ekphrastic poetics, an art form dating back to Classical Greece that involves the act of aesthetic response by conveying an interpretation and representation of visual arts through poetic writing
Summary
Art by International Visual-Artist Mahshid Farhoud-Di Marco and poems by Kelly Young are reprinted with permission of the authors and publisher from Breath: Writing Herself into History, Palabras Press, Peterborough, 2006. A juried exhibition of the collected artworks opened April 21-24, 2006 at AWOL Gallery in Toronto, Ontario sponsored in part by the Canada Council for the Arts The creation of this collaborative work evolved over several years (2000-2006) between Kelly Young while residing in Toronto, Canada and Mahshid Farhoudi-Di Marco while residing in Florence, Italy. The artists engaged in a process of ekphrastic poetics, an art form dating back to Classical Greece that involves the act of aesthetic response by conveying an interpretation and representation of visual arts through poetic writing. In the context of poetry as research, my process involves spending long periods of time with each painting, engaging in conditioned writing practices, such as timed writing exercises to stimulate a poetic response to the visual form. For articles on ekphrastic poetics see (Blackhawk, 2002; Brown, 1992; Cushman, 2002; Gorrell, 2000; Heffernan, 1993; Mitchell, 1992; Raitt, 2006; Raphael, 2006; Verdonk, 2005)
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