Flying Poem

Emily Dickinson poem, voice font created from sound bands generated by spoken alphabet Inkjet print on paper Selected for 100 Curators 100 Days, Saatchi Online This work is created using a Voice Font. Voice Font is a typeface I invented made from the spoken alphabet. The shape that each letter of the alphabet takes is created from the sound band generated from the speaking of the letter. One of the reasons I work with poems is because I think they lend themselves to be spoken. I particularly love Emily Dickinson’s poems for this reason – her dashes seem to me like notations for voice. In the introduction to his book, Silence, John Cage separates poetry from prose because of the way it is formalized. He writes ”it is not poetry by reason of its content or ambiguity but by reason of its allowing musical elements (time, sound) to be introduced into the world of words”