Thinking about process (my process of text walking, of working with flipbooks, of poetics, of osmotic thinking, …), I wanted to see what would happen if I continued to work with the material that I gathered while text walking to Martha (the dead passenger pigeon) back in August 2015 and with the bird is the word poems that I wrote last fall. The outcome has been a series of bird is the word flipbooks.
Nine days carried within twelve flipbooks.
(April 2016)
Many thanks to the Canada Council for their generous support which allowed me to spend time in Washington, D.C. to ‘be in residency’ with Martha, and to work on my bird is the word project, of which these thick flip books are a part.
