{"id":10688,"date":"2019-09-15T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daynajcollins.com\/curele\/?p=10688"},"modified":"2019-09-15T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T17:01:29","slug":"salem-poetry-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/?p=10688","title":{"rendered":"Salem Poetry Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was invited by the Salem Poetry Festival<\/em> to paint while two poets read a series of their poems during the Salem Poetry Festival. Last Thursday, I arrived early at the Ike Box<\/span><\/a> in downtown Salem to set up my table. I chose to bring four 11 x 14 canvases and two table easels, with the plan to paint two pieces as each poet read their poetry for about 30 minutes each.<\/p>\n

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The idea was that my painting would be in response to the poems being read. To prepare for the evening of painting, I repurposed four canvases I had bought at SCRAP<\/span><\/a>, painting over someone’s previous painting to prepare it for my use; I painted two of the canvases black and two in hot pink and orange, giving me something to respond to other than a blank, white canvas.<\/p>\n

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Poet Carol Hottle kicked off the event and my first painting was in response to her reading a series of poems about a transformational experience she had, surviving a horrific auto accident.<\/p>\n

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My second painting was in response to a series of poems that reflected positive experiences, and I allowed myself to focus on the visual images Carol painted<\/em> with her words.<\/p>\n

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When it was time for poet Mike Shuler to read, I listened as he read until I picked up on a poem about children joyfully playing along the banks of a river, and I couldn’t resist painting a bright abstracted landscape.<\/p>\n

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The second piece I painted was in response to Mike sharing how much he loves hiking in the Cascade Head area, a place that is near and dear to me because it is where Sitka Center For Art and Ecology<\/span><\/a> is located (and where I taught two painting classes this summer).<\/p>\n

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The whole experience was positive and fun and once I started painting, I tuned out the room full of people and just focused on the flow of words and the flow of paint.\u00a0 At the conclusion of the evening, I invited both poets to choose a painting to take with them.<\/p>\n

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Salem Poetry Festival
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Carol, Dayna, and Mike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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