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The installation incorporated George’s shapes poems in two ways. Mireille Perron's book constructions were generally accordion paged books in different configurations, such as the one suspended from the ceiling with "particle trails" coming out from it; this was meant to represent the book's similarity to the "Big Bang" and its multiplicity of "foldings and enfolding" in relation to how language has the capacity to repeat that opening out. George’s work was on the pages, on both sides, two poems descending the length of the book. One of the poems, for instance, was on the parallel idea of the "I" of writing with the elemental particles of matter configurations. The poems incorporated into the books generally complimented the ideas of the "folding" the artists had in mind. This piece and photos were later published by dANDelion, in Calgary. The picture of the two long accordion paged books running parallel on the board, and thereby interacting beginning to end, carried a work George wrote called Divergence for the piece, that actually could be read conventionally as two linear, page by page, poems, or interchangeably, one page to another, book to book, for the length of the work. The works here in BathHouse were part of the surrounding wall display. The shape poems were mounted at eye level in different configurations and around the four walls of the gallery, meant to engage the visual aspects of the book designs. |