Concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on.

This work was made specifically for Edifice at The Point of Contact Gallery an exhibition with Natalia Porter. Porter and I employed work by Boston-based Andrew Witkin. Selecting a series of texts and diagrams, to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement. Witkin’s writings, which can be read as “lists”, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space.



As a starting point, I selected two lists from Witkin, this lists, in one way or another felt familiar to the way that I like to approach and question in my creative process. The challenge was to address this aspects, but preserving my most recent line of work. Such is the case of Pile-age and Pile-age Overlapped where concrete road divider basic shapes were placed, by lowering and rotating them, I physically covered his list to create a new composition of objects that in significance are close to the way these form of poetry is composed. This approach follows two of the colors I have been finding in sidewalks, temporary codes in bright orange and yellow point out where street renovations are about to happen.