I've been working on a project titled "Oracles" that combines digital stills with experimental writing pieces. The project emerged from an interest in the concept of "creative utterance", the ability to create by speaking specific words. The source text of all these pieces is the Egyptian Book of the Dead. To create these poems, this source text is run through translation software in dozens of languages to intentionally mistranslate them. Through this process spontaneous new content emerges. The results are unexpectedly lyrical and strikingly visual and the original text is completely transformed. The texts are then edited into short poems.
I would like to make these into an artist's book and video installation. Sight and sound shimmering in and out of focus. Interpreting the oracles.
Cataract
horses
come into sight
as the stars
come down
it seems strange
this empty sky
an insomnia
of whiteness
a cataract
of gold
drawn
from the well