You pick the words today… I’m speechless.
This art is from my amazing friend, Sage Gallon.
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When We Arrived asks, “How does poetry inform other art forms?” with poet Sage Gallon
How does poetry inform your visual art?
Poetry has informed my Visual Art in May ways. Poetry compels me, challenges me to look deeper into myself, to see the truths, the good as well as the ugly. I am challenged to open my eyes, to SEE and it is by seeing more of myself that I am able then to see everything around me a new, to find the “poetry” in photos as well on the canvas… Poetry also teaches me how to be fearless. It is with that sense of fearlessness I am able to Shoot and Paint.
How important is accessibility of meaning for a poem?
That’s a great question, I tend to write from my private parts, I attempt to reveal my deepest secrets my fears, my joys my life, experience and sometimes my fantasies… I am often shocked when others relate to a piece. There are even some pieces that I have written that I no longer relate to or even like but someone will come up to me and say something like ” yo Sage… That poem ‘Fight’… It really moved me”. This tells me the accessibility of meaning is sometimes not for the Artist but for the audience.
If you are in the Los Angeles, Ca area, come out this Saturday, 4/25 and MEET SAGE:
and don’t forget to support the release of his new poetry cd next month:
When We Arrived presents an interview with poet Teal Moss
What is it about poetry that resonates with you?
Poetry has been a perfect frequency to assist in my growth in life. It has created rhythms in word by allowing me to breath thru the page. When U R riding that train of thought and everything comes out on the paper in a multitude of colors, locations, and feelings just to name a few.
How has poetry informed your work as a photographer/musician?
It’s allowed to look at things visually and sonically at various angles…more obtuse than right.
Poetry is like…
A slow dance, in slow motion rain set to a tone and a beautiful heartbeat.
BIO
Is a Los Angeles Based Photographer, Musician, Poet, and Writer. Releasing music under the moniker French Telefone. He has done music for such web series as “The Unwritten Rules”, “Everything I Did Wrong In My 20’s”, and “Headcases”. As a poet has performed at various events around Los Angeles including the great Poetry Lounge. As a Photographer has worked with Quincy Jones, Kim Basinger, to BET and Verses and Flow on TV One. Currently working on a Photography Book and another French Telefone Project.
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When We Arrived presents: Activated a poem by Teal Moss
Her vision is 4 dimensional
Her Love is non conventional
See see’s the universe in the mahogany of her hands
Her word are always visual
Her healing is preferential
She has gifts only solar systems can understand
Our feelings are each other’s addiction
Graphic when we become fiction
Allows our worlds to spiritually expand
Without constrictions
In our convictions
This is our walk in the sand
Like the sun caresses the sky 7 days a week
She kisses me like the moon does the night as we create our Mozambique
Far from perfect, designed so unique
We lay in this hub of the ultraverse
Tailored Cosmic Chic
She blooms for me like a rose in the mist of a mid September morn
The dew from her petals will bless the green grass below as the day begins to dawn
The breeze that comes off from her love, allows me to feel heaven like a song
The clouds fall in love, smile and dance on
As you become lost in the infinity pool she calls eyes
Her patterns and signatures are that of galaxies, pulsating to harmonize
Planting soul in your soil, you steps are fertilized
Building and growing your aura, now you realize
You feel Saturn’s symphony, she’s made you her King
With her soul invested into you, you can do anything
Can I see myself married to her, yes I’d sing
Can I see her bearing a child, yes 1 or 2 offspring
This is a love that’s long overdue; I’m prepared with a ring
The Universe has blessed me with a love forever, forever and everything
BIO
Is a Los Angeles Based Photographer, Musician, Poet, and Writer. Releasing music under the moniker French Telefone. He has done music for such web series as “The Unwritten Rules”, “Everything I Did Wrong In My 20’s”, and “Headcases”. As a poet has performed at various events around Los Angeles including the great Poetry Lounge. As a Photographer has worked with Quincy Jones, Kim Basinger, to BET and Verses and Flow on TV One. Currently working on a Photography Book and another French Telefone Project.
tealster.com
frenchtelefone.com
instagram.com/tealmoss
tealster.tumblr.com
twitter.com/tealmoss
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