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Artist Hong Hao seems to have found the perfect solution for reusing anyone else’s garbage he can get his hands on. An innovative artist from China, Hao seems to get absorbed in rearranging things so that they present a different picture of what people perceive to be ordinary.
The art is not mine, but the words are. The image dredged them from the depths of long ago, when anger was my primary fuel.
If there's a reason for the pain ... let me know ...
i fiddled with dials and antennas
of black and white tvs
and imagined the static filled screens
to be wonderful soothing imagery
not so! not to be!
anger turned to panic turned to melancholy
and eased into twisted inspiration
i listened for convenient coincidence
and sensed the coming of the endi stripped off my clothes, shed my inhibition
and screamed at the oppressing winter grey sky
"make up your fucking mind!"
with the smoke of an angry gun
i painted surrealistic landscapes
where i'd like to spend my life away
suddenly, i stared down the barrel and inquired
"are you the golden key?"common sense hissed, but depravity
mischeviously giggledthese voices inside of my head ...
i'd like to see their faces once, just once.
i really wouldi've no more tvs
and my anger frightens no one
besides, the color is all fucking wrong
in the images inside my brain
a shitty attitude i suppose
i laughed and danced a little jig
then bowed to my sculptures
my critics the snow and the grey sky
i paused
is there something i've forgotten to say?
is there some reason i need to stay?
i shrugged
and quickly turned the key
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"This concrete poem was created for my Writer's Craft summative assignment. I was working on a "square" concrete poem (which, well, was about being "square"), but I couldn't come up with what to write halfway through. So, the square went 3D, and this was born."
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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Simple? Yes. Awesome? Oh yeah. It's one of those images that are deceptively simple when you first glance, but then you find yourself tilting your head one way, then another ... and before you know it 15 minutes has passed.
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Very cool concept and well executed.
You can read how it was made here:
http://wordsarepictures.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/the-making-of-you-blow-me-away/
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