Lynette Willoughby – Artist ….

 I find much ‘art poetry, rather challenging – I can’t see the poetry – the definition elludes me, I am confused. Of course it’s just a matter of definition but, being something of a pedant, I tend to get hung up on definitions and meanings. 

As 1st Oct. was International Postcard Day I decided that my work for this week of the course would be in the form of postcards and decided the blizzard book structure (so called because the inventor designed it while she was locked down in a blizzard) would be good to hold the postcards in, and was a structure I’d never tried before.

I decided on two tacks – to ‘search for poetry’ and to draw some blizzards. 

I had fun with a couple of ‘blackout’ pages (though I don’t like that term and don’t use it, I just call them ‘found poems’) using some random old pages I had to hand. And using the idea from A New Dictionary of Art by Robert Good I searched online for definitions of poetry and squeezed them into a page. I had fun with a typewritter and bits of poems I randomly chose.

I ‘drew’ the blizzards with correcting fluid, a material I rather enjoy playing with; and whilst working on this book I heard a news item about words that were being lost through disuse – balderdash was one so I paired it with ‘goggledegook’ as these sum up what I think a lot of writing about art is. Finally I added a photo of a book I’d made awhile ago with the words of a friend’s poems scattered over crumpled sheets of tracing paper.