greetings of the season

… open, serial and endless offering a suggestion of the cyclic and eternal at a time of change and collapse working with layers, repetition, patterns or parallels, to build up a complex of association without arriving at a conclusion, a sense of the collection as iterative and open, serial and endless offering a suggestion of the cyclic and eternal at a time of change and collapse working with layers, repetition, patterns or parallels, to build up a complex of association without arriving at …

seasonal poem sequence

For this year’s seasonal message, to cover Winter Solstice, Christmas, Yule, New Year and all other midwinter festivals, I made a composite image using old Irish Christmas stamps, a stepped paragraph to echo a postal address, and a ‘sticker’ referencing the Par Avion label. The initial letters of the greeting ‘as Gaeilge’ were used to generate the message text. This constraint was afterwards used to generate a further 8 poems, which were shared via Instagram.