[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Oooh, that's great. Thank-you Jayne.

The thing that's brilliant about this is that it isn't something I'd normally come across and it will be exciting to think about. I've a few ideas. Give me a couple of days and I'll post a response.

thank-you!

Sarah-Jane

[Ann Drysdale]

Is this meant to be a spreading thing, like a drop of ink on a blancmange, or is it a pairing of poet/artist one-to-one.

What I mean is, if others posted visual responses to Jane's poem, and then more others wrote poems in response to those pictures (like our jolly 'exquisite corpse' game) would it matter if it webbed-out all over itself?

Or do we wait for another, unrelated poem or picture to appear and then claim it?

In other words, has Jane bagsied Jayne?

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Hi Ann,

The way I've played it before is more linear (in other words, I have indeed bagsied Jayne).

Can we do linear to start with please so my poor brain can cope - and if we find it doesn't work or gets boring we can go all rhizome later on?

Sarah-Jane

[Ann Drysdale]

Fine. So what's the next step? I mean, when you post your image in response to Jayne's poem, who gets to repond to that - does Jayne have first dibs?

[Matt Q]

I'm assuming whoever shouts first.

I'd be interested to see more than one image in response to a poem, and more than one poem in response to an image. One way to do that without branching would be like this:

Sarah-Jane has baggsed the image, which means the next poem will be written in repsonse to her image. However, anyone who wants to can also produce an image in response to Jayne's poem.

Next, someone bags the role of responder to Sarah-Jane's image, but anyone else can write a poem.

And so on.


-Matt

[Ann Drysdale]

Matt, do you mean we could all use the "official" poems and images as triggers, but just among ourselves and not posting them here (on this thread, I mean) so as not to rhizomatise the linearity?

Like wandering round the National Gallery or the Poetry Library; we can take away anything we find in the way of inspiration and use it privately without having to be artists-in-residence at the Institutions (as we do) ?

And if we wanted to share something we wrote in "response" to a item that had been privatised here, we'd post it in Met. or Non-met...?

[Matt Q]

Nope. I mean posting them here. This wouldn't wouldn't result in rhizomatising the linearity (if that means what I think it does) since it would be clear which image or poem was being used to 'seed' the next round.

See? Seeds not rhizomes!

So, thusfar:

Jayne has posted a poem. Sarah-Jane has baggsed the image.


So let's say Sarah-Jane, you, me and Roger each write and post an image in response. However since Sarah-Jane baggsed it, hers 'seeds' the next round.


So, next someone, let's say it's you, baggses the poem to respond to Sarah-Jane's image. But even so, Jayne and I and also write a poem and post it. But since you baggsed the poem, it's yours that will be used as the seed for the next crop of images.

Like this:


Poem
..|
..|-----------------------------------------
..|................|...............|...............|
baggsed....image 2....image 3......etc
image
..|-----------------------------------------
..|................|...............|...............|
baggsed...poem 2.....poem 3 ........etc
poem
..|
..|-----------------------------------------
..|................|...............|...............|
baggsed....image 2....image 3......etc
image

I dunno, it just seems like it might be more if people can join in. Might still get messy at times, I guess. But with all these gardening metaphors, that's almost inevitable