Jenny Lawton Grassl  Image and Poem Portfolio
Grapevine Sign Posts Tell Me Everything Fruit on the Vine Train Park At the Edge Underbrushed If You Could Write the Wind in the Pines Chatter Burst From Zero Bluffs This Maze Marked Leaves and Branches Snow Arcs Oldengolden Poem With Automatic Poem Land Storm Tracks Shore Lines Piles Ever Grieve
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.