Chapter 3 - Cath Rive & Sonia Jarema

Artist and Poet are back once again with their fascinating dialogue between image and word.
Cath Rive gives us her image 'After Duschamp' and in response Sonia Jarema lays before us her poem 'Inside'.
If you haven't dipped into this project before then visit their dedicated page on the right.
The Patternotion book encouraged us all to document or embark upon systems for living and working. Rive and Jarema's system lives beyond the book itself.
Here is Chapter 3.




Cath Rive - After Duschamp

Inside
by Sonia Jarema

 

I thought I had eaten into the dark with words

but they have rearranged themselves around it.

 

Sunk in my soul is a resting place

past which I  spiral up and down.

 

If I stopped moving,

let the dark compress me,

who knows what I could become.

Chapter 2 - Sonia Jarema & Cath Rive

The second instalment from Cath Rive and Sonia Jarema has just arrived at Pattenotion HQ.

Earlier in this blog you will have read about their collaboration between image and word.

Cath being the visual artist and Sonia the poet.

So here's the second part of their conversation below.
This time the image first and then the poem........
 

 

by Cath Rive

 

Volume
by Sonia Jarema

Heels lift up

walking caught as a dance;

her dress as loud as her daughter’s coat.

The volume’s turned down, 

on the older couple, yards behind.

They’ve hidden their hands from each other.

The woman’s head is tilted back

as though filling her lungs deep 

for her yearning song.

 

 

If you would like to view the whole conversation in its entirety then visit our designated page (right).

 

AL.

Sonia Jarema & Cath Rive - Poem Painting Conversations

There is a mysterious page at the end of the first chapter in the Patternotion book. On Page 60 we find no image or poem just a declaration for the ahead.
This is what it says -

 

Collaboration

I hate to make resolutions but I didn’t want the year to
start running away without having made any plans so I asked my artist friend, Cath, if we could collaborate and this is what she said,

 

"Great idea
You give me a poem
I’ll give you a painting
I’ll give you the painting from the poem
You give me the poem from the painting
We can keep going
And see where it takes us?"

 

So this year we will be  having conversations between
paintings and poems.

 

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So here it is! The first rally between two creates minds. First the poem by Sonia Jarema and then a visual reply by artist Cath Rive.

New Kid on the Tower Block

 

New Kid on the Tower Block (after Duchamp)
Cath Rive

Balletic you tested each stair
with toe, pad and heel.
Your hand glided the banister
as you stopped to shake sunshine
into the dark staircase.
Your shirt held clouds
you’d clung onto on the rooftop.
I could see the skyline
in your legs poised like cranes.
That evening you brought in
the dank brook on your trousers.
You told me how the water
drank you as you waded her length
to find the unfamiliar way home.

 

 

 

Check out their page (right) where we will be documenting their conversation as it unfolds.

AL.

 

 

Mark Lomax - The Art of Waiting




Mark Lomax - Walking and Waiting

  This is an exciting time for me, as the 1st February 2013 deadline slowly approaches, the artwork for the Patternotion book arrives in my inbox.
Part of the inspiration for this book was the work of Mark Lomax.
An artist who I've been lucky to exhibit with since the early magnet installation at The Arndale Centre, Manchester called Freezchester in 2010.
Mark plied his trade as an illustrator and photographer during the 1990s before moving north to Scotland. He is now a part-time lecturer at Inverness College. His  industrial style was honed in part by his collaboration with experimental electronic band Attrition. Whose dark waves of sound emerged from the 1980's post-punk world of an unforgiving industrial Coventry.
He is a excellent artist whose rich ideas take him happily from 2 dimensions to 3 and back again. Although each photo is created as a stand-alone work, when grouped together the individual elements compliment and enhance each other to create something new with power and narrative.

This is what Mark wrote about the system for the Patternotion book -

“Walking and waiting” records the frustration and boredom of waiting for someone who is three quarters of an hour late for a meeting.  The pattern created, with its zig zag rhythms and sense of movement, documents the erratic pacing and growing concern I was experiencing at the time.  The images for this composite were taken using an ipod, this has since become my camera of choice."

He's definitely an artist I'll be keeping an eye on in the coming year and hope that we'll be exhibiting together for a long time to come. 

Check out his photo work at

http://marklomaxphotoworks.wordpress.com/

AL.