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| INTRODUCTION
'Journey of the Drip' is an assembly of embryonic myths providing
fuels
and incentives with which to understand our own stories. As solid turns
to
liquid and liquid to gas, so the drip is a transformative element in the
pivotal
experiences of humankind.
Upon reflection of the images, we
see our deep capacity for interminable
folly; the devastation of extreme aggression;
the mindlessness of social
herding and the tragedy of aimless greed. The intensely
imaginative collision
of man and beast mirror a world where irrationality,
instinct and the balance
of nature are disturbed.
These methodic and
hypnotizing images are a drumbeat for us to
contemplate. The form and its variations
can teach us to observe the workings
of our inner life thus provoking an awareness
of universal patterns of
existence.
Mariellen Chapdelaine
January
2008
FORWARD
'Journey
of the Drip' is a poetry-image book consisting of 81 images and poems. The book
has a beginning and ending but the images do not work in sequence, instead each
image is a self-contained narrative. The narratives are constructed through the
integration of 9 symbols: a drip, a bowl, fire, a clown mask, a snake, a spear,
monkey bird, and butterfly, which are all present in each image. The symbols are
placed in an environment and utilized in some manner by the characters to generate
the stories. The esoteric subject matter of the images is explained more literally
by the accompanying poems which forcefully comment on the darker side of human
nature. All the poems
are constructed in the same manner, four lines as rhyming
couplets.
Joe Fekieta |
