Providence Diastic
2008
Silkscreen on Reflective Aluminum
12 x 18 inches
The poet Jackson Mac Lowe developed a system for composing poems. He called this method a diastic reading. Mac Lowe would select a key phrase, then read the text until he found a word whose first letter matched the first letter of the key phrase. He would then keep reading until he found a word who's second letter was the same as the second letter in the key phrase, then a word who's third letter matched, and so on.
I used this technique to "read" Providence.
