{"id":90,"count":39,"description":"The works in the theme <em>Being a Poet<\/em> show the different ways I bring written language into my visual art practice. If the artworks in the theme <em>Paper Made Visible<\/em> look to the spaces between words, in the works of this theme, I seek to reclaim words.\r\n\r\nSome works in <em>Being a Poet<\/em> play with the meaning and ephemerality of words, and letters of the alphabet. Words are made material: cast in paper, looped in wire and string. They are carved in wood, mechanically or optically animated, formed of shadow and light. They are installed on walls and floors, in windows, and placed in my hands. Refusing the printed page, their materiality, form, movement and placement invite poetic interpretation, one that is layered and open. I give words a body - something I can play with, take apart, stretch and remake.\r\n\r\nAt six years old, learning to read and to write coincided with the death of my mother. Each word absorbed was a step in recreating myself without her and a placing of words between my body and hers. This marked the beginning of a dialogue with absence.\r\n\r\n<em>Being a Poet<\/em> also includes literary works that embrace writing conventions, my choice forms being poetry and journaling. Notable is <em>Inside-out Poems<\/em>, a two-hundred poem collaborative, audio and artist-book. Likewise, my artist book, <em>Riens\/Nothings<\/em> is an important contribution to my investigations of nothingness.\r\n\r\n<p class=\"aopa-text-extra-small\">Karen Trask in collaboration with Don Goodes, 2025<\/span>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"aopa-text-divider\">===<\/p>\r\n\r\nLes \u0153uvres du th\u00e8me <em>\u00catre po\u00e8te<\/em> montrent les diff\u00e9rentes fa\u00e7ons dont j\u2019int\u00e8gre le langage \u00e9crit dans ma pratique artistique visuelle. Si les \u0153uvres d\u2019art du th\u00e8me <em>Papier<\/em> s\u2019int\u00e9ressent aux espaces entre les mots, dans les \u0153uvres de ce th\u00e8me, je cherche \u00e0 me r\u00e9approprier les mots.\r\n\r\nCertaines \u0153uvres de <em>\u00catre po\u00e8te<\/em> jouent avec le sens et l\u2019\u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e9rit\u00e9 des mots et des lettres de l\u2019alphabet. Les mots deviennent mat\u00e9riels\u00a0: moul\u00e9s dans du papier, enroul\u00e9s dans du fil de fer et de la ficelle. Ils sont grav\u00e9s dans le bois, anim\u00e9s m\u00e9caniquement ou optiquement, form\u00e9s dans l\u2019ombre et la lumi\u00e8re. Ils sont install\u00e9s sur les murs et les planchers, dans les fen\u00eatres, et plac\u00e9s dans mes mains. Refusant la page imprim\u00e9e, leur mat\u00e9rialit\u00e9, leur forme, leur mouvement et leur positionnement invitent \u00e0 une interpr\u00e9tation po\u00e9tique, \u00e0 la fois multidimensionnelle et ouverte. Je donne un corps aux mots \u2013 un corps que je peux manipuler, d\u00e9monter, \u00e9tirer et reconstruire.\r\n\r\n\u00c0 six ans, apprendre \u00e0 lire et \u00e0 \u00e9crire a co\u00efncid\u00e9 avec le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de ma m\u00e8re. Chaque mot absorb\u00e9 \u00e9tait une \u00e9tape pour me reconstruire sans elle et un moyen de placer des mots entre mon corps et le sien. Cela a marqu\u00e9 le d\u00e9but d\u2019un dialogue avec l\u2019absence.\r\n\r\n<em>\u00catre po\u00e8te<\/em> comprend \u00e9galement des \u0153uvres litt\u00e9raires qui respectent les conventions d\u2019\u00e9criture, la po\u00e9sie et le journal \u00e9tant mes formes de pr\u00e9dilection. On peut citer <em>Inside-out Poems<\/em>, un projet de livre d\u2019artiste et d\u2019audio collaboratif de 200\u00a0po\u00e8mes. De m\u00eame, mon livre d\u2019artiste, <em>Riens\/Nothings<\/em>, est une contribution importante \u00e0 mes recherches sur le rien.\r\n\r\n<p class=\"aopa-text-extra-small\">Traduction: M\u00e9lissa Guay<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/guz.ca\/aopa-karentrask\/awtheme\/being-a-poet\/","name":"Being a poet \u2013 \u00catre po\u00e8te","slug":"being-a-poet","taxonomy":"awtheme","parent":0,"meta":{"order":1},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Being a poet \u2013 \u00catre po\u00e8te Theme - Karen Trask<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guz.ca\/aopa-karentrask\/awtheme\/being-a-poet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Being a poet \u2013 \u00catre po\u00e8te Theme - Karen Trask\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The works in the theme Being a Poet show the different ways I bring written language into my visual art practice. If the artworks in the theme Paper Made Visible look to the spaces between words, in the works of this theme, I seek to reclaim words. Some works in Being a Poet play with the meaning and ephemerality of words, and letters of the alphabet. Words are made material: cast in paper, looped in wire and string. They are carved in wood, mechanically or optically animated, formed of shadow and light. They are installed on walls and floors, in windows, and placed in my hands. Refusing the printed page, their materiality, form, movement and placement invite poetic interpretation, one that is layered and open. I give words a body &#8211; something I can play with, take apart, stretch and remake. At six years old, learning to read and to write coincided with the death of my mother. Each word absorbed was a step in recreating myself without her and a placing of words between my body and hers. This marked the beginning of a dialogue with absence. Being a Poet also includes literary works that embrace writing conventions, my choice forms being poetry and journaling. Notable is Inside-out Poems, a two-hundred poem collaborative, audio and artist-book. Likewise, my artist book, Riens\/Nothings is an important contribution to my investigations of nothingness. Karen Trask in collaboration with Don Goodes, 2025 === Les \u0153uvres du th\u00e8me \u00catre po\u00e8te montrent les diff\u00e9rentes fa\u00e7ons dont j\u2019int\u00e8gre le langage \u00e9crit dans ma pratique artistique visuelle. Si les \u0153uvres d\u2019art du th\u00e8me Papier s\u2019int\u00e9ressent aux espaces entre les mots, dans les \u0153uvres de ce th\u00e8me, je cherche \u00e0 me r\u00e9approprier les mots. Certaines \u0153uvres de \u00catre po\u00e8te jouent avec le sens et l\u2019\u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e9rit\u00e9 des mots et des lettres de l\u2019alphabet. 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