additive juxtaposition

The whole color, the tactile quality, makes the cyanotype a great medium, but a lot of what was lacking, was that I had paired snippets or broken fragments of my southwest trip with stanzas that were broken as well. A poem about palms—as much as liked the book about palm tress, and what palm trees mean—I think was too conceptually related to looking at the signs. I think if I had paired the signs—which are pretty abstract already even though they are specific signs—their context, how I broke the background up, how I reconfigured the page. I had broken up something I had seen, I had already framed it one way by taking the photograph, I was re framing it again by putting it on a piece paper that had changed it. It kept being framed and framed again.

I think a better juxtaposition—if it needed one, that’s debatable as like them as pictures as themselves—would have been to pick something specific. If I chose a passage about the language of signs as buildings, I could have picked something very specific, looking at a pertinent quote. Maybe, “What is the sign now?” could have been a topic to study.