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poems art and ideas poems art and ideas monday september 19 2011 updates the photo of the guggenheim is one of two photographs that i have in the architecture 2012 calendar published by rizzoli that is available now other recent events include a screen print of a concrete poem is included in visual flux 2 published by redfox press ireland see the work at the london and new york book fairs coming up in the next two weeks a visual sonnet work on paper has been selected for art on the plains xi at the plains art museum fargo nd opening at the end of january 2012 numbers 1 through 10 of the viva art book series see previous posts have been purchased by the university of san diego through vamp and tramp the next five works in the series are being developed two have been completed visual poetry work for exhibit has been sent to write now an exhibit at the chicago cultural center opening at the end of september 2011 the exhibition will be up until next april haiku 92 was recently completed and printed by hermetic press minneapolis phil gallo has featured it on his blog to illustrate his discussion on serifs two dedication sonnets for the weisman art museum and the isabella stewart gardner museum have been completed and are under respective consideration posted by helmes at 11 37 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday july 11 2011 sonnets for the past 3 years i have produced paintings and drawings based upon the 14 line sonnet but without text recently i have done a few as site specific works that incorporate gravel sand dirt pine needles grass flowers etc the site debris is added to pigment stick with the lines delineated with masking tape the yellow painting shown is 2 x3 and is a taliesin sonnet from a recent visit on 5 vii 11 the lower work is also 2 x3 titled a walker sculpture garden sonnet from 8 vii 11 posted by helmes at 11 01 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 5 2011 viva art books 6 10 here are the next five in the series 6 john m bennett 7 harriet bart 8 philip gallo 9 david dellaforia 10 marilyn r rosenberg the next five will include frances van maele ks ernst cathy m bennett and who knows who you can have the first ten books for 50 total for all ten for a similar series and one that was started over 60 issues ago google wipe if you would like to participate please let me know and i will send you some sheets posted by helmes at 12 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday april 12 2011 does poetry matter essay here is an essay i submitted to a contest does poetry matter scott helmes 3 times 13 39 thirty nine thirty nine years if poetry doesn t matter i ve wasted thirty nine years of my life that s more than a third of a century should i caterwaul now or wait a few years longer say a nice round fifty what is one life anyway when you consider what else i could have frittered away those precious seconds on maybe as a vacuum salesman or a dedicated television watcher since it s been around my whole life well almost or a stumble bum such is the life of an avant garde poet a continual outcast from contemporary poetry literature and language in general as wittgenstein put forth there is no such thing as a private language and therefore thus a public language and then there will be poetry regardless of its popularity significance or use before books there was poetry after books there will be poetry its form is not the question whether or not it touches the mind the heart or the eye it is central to the fabric of life it is not a question of quality or feeling or quantity it exists all that exists does matter and poetry will not be extinguished may be even after humans it is not a matter of convincing others or i that poetry matters which is a waste of time and it is not a question of importance for i create poetry for the purpose of only creating a fruitless activity if there ever was one the central issue then should be stated as a matter of influence does poetry influence anything the conduct of our life the defining moments do we think of poetry obviously today for the majority poetry does not occupy the central stage or even share it with similar language based activities and that may not be a good thing the decline of difficult culture is to be lamented only because critical culture creates critical thinkers and great poetry is at the core of critical thinkers critical thinkers are not smart computer programmers nor are they political pundits they exist today in the sub margins of the landscape they ve escaped into the bowels of academia much taken with their own circular formulas and logic rarely straying from the friendly confines of being tenured thoughtful opinions carefully reasoned positions in depth commentary outside the latest news are buried under the noise the bling the sound bite and the condensed text such as a twitter never to reach a significant mass the vehicles to convey these thoughts are lost in commerce reaching a dead end and thus what of the future poetry may be like a seed to lie fallow and then burst forth in evolutionary forms unrecognizable to many it may be a buzzing constant always in the background but not on center stage it may marry and produce hybrid offspring adapting to the march of time it may be a phoenix yet poetry continues to matter on a singular individual level for poetry put me in touch with peoples from around the world and still does even from behind the censored iron curtain and cuba and those who did not speak english all this before the web it led to readings and performances in boston ottawa prescott az cincinnati new york columbus miami albany new brunswick and other backwaters i got to see and ponder the work of many others that was exciting avant garde and strange it matters because i was able to be in touch with people unknown in a curious manner an intelligent dialogue and with sympathetic strangers who became the known from the unknown it also gave me a chance to send a lot of paper to a major university library for endless storage and maybe someday a desperate graduate student will spend countless hours trying to figure out what it all means and then graduate into a poetry stifled world it lifted me from the fog enveloping my neurons striking out on new territory long ago poetry was this glittering snow field of language from which if language didn t matter than poetry didn t matter and i didn t either but i couldn t determine that at the start and now that it is more towards the end those remaining seconds breathe language and thus poetry as if the previous thirty nine years count on it posted by helmes at 10 21 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 6 2011 bombing merzbau broadside broadside of bombing merzbau an original scott helmes poem letterset by philip gallo at hermetic press the edition is 3 with each being different available for purchase at 25 each posted by helmes at 1 09 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday march 14 2011 new 3d drawings here are some additional images for my experimentations with 3d drawings it a series i ve tentatively entitled lines in space they are drawings done on a variety of papers including glassine the works are primarily watercolors some are stamp prints though none of those are shown here the top photo is a closeup view of the top drawing in the middle photo the third photo shows about seven different drawings posted by helmes at 12 41 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday february 25 2011 viva artists book series here are the first 5 books in the viva artists book series the books are from 4 to 6 pages in length and printed on viva paper towels i start with the basic pages and send them off to other book artists to finish the book so far here are the artists involved 1 scott helmes 2 anne gorrick 3 carol stetser 4 wendy collin sorin 5 musicmaster tom cassidy the next books will be by john m bennett miekal and harriet bart and philip gallo one aside i sent 1 in the series to the ceo of kimberly clark as a gift and the idea that maybe kimberly clark could start such a collection have an artists book program using their products or run an internship program no such luck they sent it back unopened with the consumer relations form letter saying they don t accept ideas for their products talk about not getting it so the idea is to continue the series and then sell them in groups of ten for a very low price 5 each all proceeds to the artist to an interested party if you would like to be an artist in the viva artists book series let me know and provide your mailing address if you are interested in purchasing the first ten in the series let me know also and remember progress in art through paper towels 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