Three More Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Edward
I absolutely *love* the three new ones!
You've set yourself a task that is fraught with
difficulties, with complex & subtle snares.
To take a work that is as marvellous & as compressed
as the original & then to find visuals that are both
analogues & non trivial 'extensions', fleshings out,
of the the poems, requires invention, care & a
particular sort of artistic *tact* .
But it could be *too* tactful, a kind of walking on
eggshells duty piece & therefore I love too your
boldness & wit in piece #6.
Together with your somewhat grim hyper story of last
year this represents my favourite work by you so far.
( & it's getting better, in my view, although I'll be
interested to go back to the first three, which had a
slightly less sure feel for me & see if they look
different in light of the new ones: ie. either that
they were as good all the time & I failed to
completely get them or that they represent a kind of
warming up, with the utterly splendid '20 snowy
mountains' as a kind of launghing pad into these
three)
I really look forward to final seven!
michael

— Edward Picot <[email protected]> wrote:

> "I was of three minds,
> Like a tree
> In which there are three blackbirds."
>
> From a work in progress: three more short
> animations, based on sections of Wallace Stevens'
> famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
> Blackbird", are now online. The first three were
> completed in February, and there should be more to
> come a bit later in the year.
>
> http://www.edwardpicot.com/blackbird/
>
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DIWO E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour Exhibition update.

For those who could not make it to the DIWO exhibition at the HTTP
Gallery, here is a link to some images of the show that finished, 1st April.
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/Diwo_exhibition2.shtml

95 - 100 individuals actively created work, participated or collaborated
in the DIWO project.

The project has already had offers to show in different venues around
the world which are presently being negotiated.

The exhibition is a distributable project which can be moved to any
space in the world. It works both online and in physical space
simultaneously. The venue is a physical interface showcasing co-selected
by artists and curators.

Details about the project/exhibition here:
Do It With Others (DIWO):
E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/exhibitions12.shtml

View list activity from all participants on the NetBehaviour here.
Official beginning - 1 February 2007 DIWO Archives by email thread:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/20070201/thread.html