Kismet Arts Tangent

This was my first attempt at what has been referred to as a “Bocretion.” Coined by Stephen and his artsy friend, this is a collage process, where in the cut-up style of Bill Burroughs, one takes phrases, jumbles it up into a “poem” and then is further inspired by it to create a surreal cut-up beast of mixed media. It was my mistake to take the poem so literally and use whole lines, rather than phrases. The corresponding poem, originally written by W.E. Yeats, and still retaining most of its original poetic structure refers to the story of Leda, which involves a god posing as a giant swan and assaulting her. This work was completed sometime March. The canvas used to be a painting of a geometric pattern of red and yellow with a black silhouette of a tree, but I disliked its simplicity and lack of originality so I painted over it.