New Video for my poem "Hush"

I created a new video for my poem "Hush." I wrote the first draft of this poem in 1995 and revised it for my 2018 book Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy. It was collected again in my most recent book Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020. Enjoy. 

Spacescapes

I want to put down some thoughts about the paintings I've been working on lately. Since June, 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, I've been working on a series of paintings I'm calling "spacescapes" (until I think of something better). 

Beginning with "Polka Dot Asteroid Field," and with the most recent painting being "Dodechahedron in Pixellated Space" (as of February 10, 2022), there are seven "full-sized" canvases so far, with a handful of studies on smaller canvases and paper. This is perhaps the most sustained series of visual works I've ever produced--though it incorporates some design elements that have been present in my paintings for years, namely the confetti-like, multicoloured "polka dots" (circles) and "pixellizations" (squares)--and I feel it may be the beginning of truly sustained project, if not a signature style. 

More thoughts to come. 

"Ruby Icosahedron in Pixellated Space"

24" x 24", acrylic and canvas, 2022.

"Blue Tesseract in Pixellated Space"

24" x 30", acrylic and canvas, 2022.

"Dodechahedron in Pixellated Space"

30" x 24", acrylic and canvas, 2022.

"Radioactive Monolith in Pixellated Space"

24" x 30", acrylic and canvas, 2022.

"Negative Space with Polka Dot Asteroids"
24" x 30", acrylic and canvas, 2021.

"The Pillars of Creation with Polka Dot Asteroids"
36" x 24", acrylic on canvas, 2021.

"Black Hole with Polka Dot Asteroids"

24" x 30", acrylic and canvas, 2021.

"Polka Dot Asteroids in the Vicinity of Planet X"
30" x 24", acrylic on canvas, 2021.

"Polka Dot Asteroid Field"
24" x 30", acrylic and canvas, 2021.