I sew on this does I attach a tack tack on touch and attach I wanted to belong to somebody I so wanted to love and lovely and beloved love lovey dovey I so wanted to love be loved I wanna be loved by you and you and nobody else will do and then I cut out thjs didn’t work or work out or something what he did to me now on blue blouse and blue by you and blue and blue and didn’t work or out or away or run run run and run and I cut out I approach and attach me me and join me and join and non-joint or no joins now and I cut out not not attach cut out button now I wanted to love and love and be in love now and belovely lovely heavenly love and then I cut out something happens to me I just draw with draw and draw in now I can be si so inside myself now so in me snail me just take scissor man to cut me down and I sew button to open and close now but I close down and I wanted to start and start and then I shut up and shut down something goes like that I’m on first I’m on then I cut me off and out now just quiet I was noisy so then I sleep now sleep and sleep now so sleepy weepy what happens to me I just wanted to love and love and now lonely said I cut button off big scissor man comes round to cut me down something goes and goes like that cut now to cut down they cut down trees she said you are ready but I wasn’t ready now not so not yet not yet ready you ready sew me but I can’t now can’t attach I was walk around loose end and thread cut off now I was miss somebody must have been me I miss now I miss you so much I miss me miss what you what you call me miss diss miss this miss ball now miss I miss you I miss you I miss me I was absent from school I am absent girl who cuts out cut me mister scissor man cut me down I want to tack on and stay on now but I can’t yet something holds me back I want to close and closer now close my button on but I de tach gap blose now not yet on properly I have to sew jacket on me I have to sew me
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Ukulele Ekphrasis: Prudence Flint and Ania Walicz
By Prudence Flint and Ania Walwicz | 20 September 2012
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Prudence Flint graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in painting at Victoria College of the Arts (1989) before completing her Master of Fine Art by research at Monash University (2008). In 2004 she won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with her painting A Fine Romance#9 and in 2009 the Portia Geach Memorial Award with her painting Scrambled Egg. She has been a finalist in numerous drawing and painting prize shows including; Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Archibald Portrait Prize, R & M McGivern Prize, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, National Works on Paper, Paul Guest Prize, and Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize. Her work is held in the collections of City of Port Phillip, Artbank, BHP Billiton and private collections in Australia. Flint is represented by Nellie Castan Gallery in Melbourne, Chapman Gallery in Canberra, and Bett Gallery in Hobart. She is to have her eleventh solo show at Nellie Castan Gallery in October 2012.
http://www.prudenceflint.com
http://www.prudenceflint.com
Ania Walwicz is an Australian poet and play-wright, born in Swidnica, Poland, she emigrated to Australia in 1963 and was educated at Melbourne's Victorian College of Arts and the University. She has been a writer-in-residence at Australian universities and is well-known for performances of her work. She is widely admired for her highly experimental poetry, which rejects the conventional structures of free-verse in favour of the prose-poem form, but creates energetic rhythms through patterns of grammatical and tonal recurrence. Walwicz's principal collections include Writing (1982), re-issued as Travel/Writing in 1989, Boat (1989), and Red Roses (1992). Her theatrical pieces include Girlboytalk (1986), Dissecting Mice (1989), Elegant (1990), Elegant (2013), Palace of Culture (2014) and Horse (2018).
Related work:
- Andy Jackson Reviews Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word
- Body of Sound
- ‘Eat’ from Horse
- ‘Language can multiply itself and form secret and unusual patterns’: Andrew Pascoe Interviews Ania Walwicz
- Horse Preamble
- Horse
- Review Short: Ania Walwicz’s The Palace of Culture
- Radio Laneways and the Melbourne Sound
- All Writing Is Pigshit
- Enter Cordite Scholarly