RiTUAL. A ceremonial act ~ Rites used in the course of worship ~ The performance of ceremonial acts ~ The prescribed form of conducting the ceremony ~ A method of procedure that is followed without variation ~ performance with gestures, words, and objects, often in a sequestered place.
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Mixed media book artist and poet Deborah Arnold teaches writing as a practice engaged through the book arts, from papermaking to pop-up book structures, transforming ransomed scraps of text, type, and paintings into collage poems. Her artworks are in private collections, including the White House Collection of American Crafts in Washington, DC, and her poetry has appeared in print and web journals.
A morning practice begins before dawn as a notion considered, a thought, a meditation, soon engaged with language at its most intimate – letter by letter, written with crumbling press type and graphite pencil that flourishes in strokes. Color then washes across and over, its own language of veils becoming an expression guided by silent meditation and presence. Notion no. 64: too blue. broken sky / glass / heart / hushed songbird / no why / count on blue / over you.
