Then I let you

In this video, a male voice recites a teenage love poem. Words flash on screen in time with the spoken words. Sometimes the two sets of words match, and sometimes they differ. This work examines processes of signification. It emphasizes disruption and disconnection as fundamental and generative operations in making meaning. Extending on post-structural and deconstructionist ideas, this work questions the relationship between written and spoken words. By actively disrupting the sincerity of a teenage love poem, it questions the sites and mechanisms of comprehension, poetry and signification.

Threshold

In this video, the words of a translated poem fade in and out above an abstract, moving horizon line. The animated words are set to an emotive stock music track. This work examines processes of signification. It emphasizes abstraction and disconnection as fundamental and generative operations in making meaning. Extending on post-structural and deconstructionist ideas, this work questions the signifying processes of translation and metaphor. By emphasizing the abstract qualities of a translated love poem, it questions the sites and mechanisms of signification.

Shades of grey

Poem published in Islet

This landscape before me

Poem

Galah's Skull

Poem

The Orchid House

Poem

The Macaw

Poem

Primavera : the graces

Poem

A scrap of lace

Poem

Botany

Poem

The vulture

Poem

The Quattrocento as a Waltz

Poem

Rain, Ravello

Poem

Enduring Ritual

Poem

Medusa

Poem