No unifying structure

As with the execution of an etching (drawing with a fine needle into a blackened wax ground), or with a poem (spontaneous first word/s, no need to understand), I begin my drawings on an impulse, not knowing or wanting to know the outcome, working spontaneously, attentive to detail - a process I have learnt to  trust. Sometimes I am listening to poetry. I allow words and images to take on their own life, venture forth uncensored, and I let them be. 

No unifying structure. Pen and ink.

Pebbles on a beach. Pen and ink.

Not one thing. Pen and ink.

Linda Black

Linda Black is a poet and visual artist.  She is Editor of Long Poem Magazine: http://longpoemmagazine.org.uk and has published five collections with Shearsman Books. The Son of a Shoemaker (Hearing Eye, 2012), illustrated collaged prose-poems about the early life of Hans Andersen, was the subject of a Poetry Society exhibition.

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