Assignment 1 Task 1: Rehearsal Exercise on Writing Collaboratively

Questions:

1. Where do you draw creative inspiration from?

2. Where would you like to draw creative inspiration from?

3. How important is beauty to your work?

4. How does that beauty translate? Does it at all?

Beauty is a thankless task for some,

the essential essence exists in every

molecule and vein of art, for

without it, art would cease to breathe.

I surrender my eyes to your hope

that what starving arms hold me

will have beauty in their veins and

receive my essential thanks.

Image leaves no crumbs for imagination.

Words act as freshly dug up clay, if you
hold a book with your muddy hands and
close your eyes, you can feel everything I intended.

Close your eyes in the movies –

it is for nothing.

Beauty sought but not found

within a film is offensive, why

can’t I feel the starving arms when

I reach – out for them, I become them

I never liked writing scripts,

what excites me, pulsates on the page

will be re-written a hundred times

in a hundred languages of a hundred

heartbeats.

Translating something into a language

and translating it back leaves a corpse of

words, blue and meaning lost.
I try this sometimes to remind myself to
put blood stains onto my words.

I interview my best friend, who is a film maker, on the phone and we discussed for a few hours the ideas of beauty and how they translate when making art. He spoke about how the image he created is front of someone’s eyes and that is the only thing they need to judge beauty. Whereas in writing, the visualising is done in the mind and the reader is able to adapt and morph my words to move towards their own ideas of beauty. I found it interesting to think about it in terms of translation, as not only are languages and cultures faced with barriers when it comes to art but it really effects mediums too. It was a very intense conversation so I thought it best to express in poetry.