22nd of August 2022 - From my World to the Virtual One (Creation of the Blog / Digital Notebook)
As an ardent collager and poet, I find myself often contemplating Ugo Carrega's words from his manifesto on concrete poetry "Everthing is language [...] Language is everything" . I often imagine that everything in my bedroom and studio is language, and following this what kind of poem could be read from it. The most prominant feature of my room are the walls. They are painted in a titanium white; this serves a dual purpose of allowing me to use my room as a flexible exhibtion space, whilst also serving as a neutral background for all of the collaging and art materials I store on it. In essence, these walls and my room are similtaneously my biggest collage and a womb from which new artworks are created. To clarify, the interior of my room are constantly changing and in flux, as myself, my youngest sister and one of her friends remove items from the wall to make their own artworks. In the spaces that are left behind, I put up new materials I (and sometimes others) have ma...