Jenny Lawton Grassl  Image and Poem Portfolio
My work explores the ways that words and images go together, especially the relationship between poetry and images. This exploration I call Poe-see, and is sometimes known as Vis-po for visual poetry.
One theme that is important to me is the overlap of human personal experience and the attitudes and actions of humans toward the natural world. I am intrigued by how these inner and outer worlds coincide.
The digital age enables me to create a dialogue between image and word in a way that was not possible before. Yet, the organic nature of language is at the core of my work.
I have created a body of work using the technique of automatic writing popular with the surrealists. I do this automatic writing visually, placing letters in a visual order not a legible or sequential order. I sometimes fragment the writing further.
We are in the presence of embedded meanings, hinted at but not revealed.