hearing with your eyes

I think a lot about the McGurk effect. The effect is a perceptual phenomenon in which a person "hears" what they see when audio & visual do not match up.

I feel this is the foundation of concrete poetry. Something I've been playing with recently as part of my poem-a-day project.

day 467 - falling

day 469 - cacophony

day 472 - lady dawn (after sappho as translated by anne carson)

Poem-A-Day #471 - Going from Natalie Raymond on Vimeo.

concretes

emotion regulation handout 6, cut & woven paper, 2015.

writing is ruthlessly cutting out things your spent hours fashioning from nothing.

here is a concrete poem I cut from my graduate thesis last week.