Artist’s Statement: “What a Baby” was conceived as a performance piece for Heart Beats, a Beat Poetry exhibition presented at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, November 21, 2019. During the performance, I was joined on stage by a trombonist who deftly employed a mute to make his instrument “cry.” This work integrates text-based writing with an audio file created in Logic Pro that can be accessed by clicking a URL or by pointing a smartphone camera at the QR code located at the bottom of the page. In a time when boundaries between textual, visual, and aural art forms overlap, I’m inspired to extend and complicate traditional poetic expressions.
What a baby
what a fat fat baby
fat baby fat in fat in fact
in fact fact facts vax vax in
vaccination for fat baby babe
in fact infect effect baby in fect
facts in nation ation cation vacate
in fat nation vacation great great ney
shun hate nation ate nation hate shun
hate shun gradation great nation hasten
fast hasten fast hasten nation fasten nation
fascination nation fast fasten fat weight wait
weight fat weight wait weigh way way fat baby
weigh fat weigh fat wait baby wait baby baby wait
aby aby Amy Amy aim aim shoot don’t aim fat shoot
shoot shoe shoe who who you oo oo too fat too fat
too oo fat oo fat oo fat whose fat whose fat whose
wooze whose woozy woozy woozy Suzie Suzie you
who you woozie Suzie whose baby whose fat fat
fat baby fat maybe my baby what baby my fat
baby my baby what baby my baby what baby
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