#concretepoems

Finding an EMPTY SPACE is my graduation project!

Whether you like it or not; everything changes and the world around us is chaotic, weird, and incomprehensible. Yet, here we are! All breathing, reading Pinterest captions, and sometimes even typing behind typewriters.

Writing on a typewriter allowed me to create visual compositions in a completely different manner than I would on a computer. Other than being sensitive to mistakes and being time-expensive, the typewriter offers a grid where creation might be limited but therefore feels limitless.

You type it, you see it, and it’s there on paper. It is the sounds of the keys, the rolling of the paper, and the rewinding of the sentence. The way you can softly press or SMASH IT IN.

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#VisualVerses

In the foreword of his most recent book neckbone: visual verses (Northwestern University Press), Theaster Gates called avery r. young “one of our greatest living street poets...one of the most important thinkers on the Black experience.”