Through a series of abstract paintings
and prints based on disjointed words and phrases, Writing for 5 aims to
evaluate the relationship between poetry and abstraction. Each painting has been allocated a
corresponding piece of music which is printed on the individual labels. Music
has been used to blend lyrical phrasing with colour and form. Whilst the work
is primarily associated with the poetry seen throughout the exhibition in the
form of linocuts the music adds another dimension to the paintings. Poetic phrases are enacted within the
paintings ambiguously so that the original intentions of the poetry are brought
into question. This ensures that no “trace of that objective reality which
makes up the normal background of our everyday existence” (M. Seuphor, 1958)
thus adhering to cultural expectations of abstraction.
