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The Library of Petric Poetics
Petric poetics expresses a life composed in stone.
A petric poetics sutures a seam along an asymptotic
rapprochement between writing and rocks:
stones becoming signs and language becoming lithic.
The verbicovisual proximates petric/poetic serve
as apposite indexical lexicals pointing to
a terrain where words matter,
where ‘words matter’ is more
an axiomatic equivalence (words=matter)
than a figure of speech.
Petric poetics is composed in a confluence
of earthworks and concrete poetry,
land art and collage.
Petric Poetic In-Principles:
- Stone is a signifying medium.
- Words emerged from the earth.
- Language can merge with stone.
- Poetic principles may be expressed in stone compositions.
- The visual is tactile: touch with the eyes, see with touch.
- By-directional absorption: absorb stone-language by becoming absorbed by the language of stones.
- Conformity: a lithic literacy seeks "a kind of word magic, the power that certain terms possess to enchant our relations with nature and place" (Robert Macfarlane).
- Unconformity: “words and rocks contain a language that follows a syntax of splits and ruptures.” (Smithson)
- Petric poetics prioritizes a present moment pregnant with epiphanic potential.
- Petric poetics prefers pithy, proverbial prompts that readily proffer themselves to readers to play with.
- Petric Poetics pursues an inverse relation between brevity in form and duration of absorption.
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