Travel Shorts

This project was a poetry installation I created in my home town. Its message was to illustrate the existence of poetry as an ever evolving entity. To demonstrate the fluidity of language and its ultimate ubiquity.

I took words from a selection of poems and wrote them on the wings of wind-up butterflies, which were then placed onto the leaves of a Budlea bush in an open space in Falmouth; my home town.

The idea of the butterflies being an installation was that as time went on people, the wind, weather and possibly the birds and other wildlife would begin to take their place as poets: rearranging, removing and reshuffling my words. The further the words managed to be spread the more successful the project since its nature was to demonstrate the evolution of poetry and language.

Below are two word-a-flies poems that could have been created at first. I liked that this would change as time went on.

Word-a-flies #1


Umlaut
misplaced
echo
chasm
rhyme
Zugunruhe
distilled
rifts
cleft
fathoms
carve
unscathed
silence
violence
magnitude
mimic
instability
with
oscillation
orange
fantastic
universal
binary
rippling
precipitation
muscles
reluctantly
responding
bitter
reply
lure
opens
suture
scattered
leaves
circling
bound
shibboleth
ribbons






claimed
osmotic
chaos
allelomimesis
metronome
incision
under
over
through
capsules
energy
wings
duck
monarch
bee
chance
play
aphasia
synaesthete
linctus
scribble
hieroglyphics
sand
hurling
cries
velvet
moon
compass
orientation
east
integrity
aching
solitude
feathers
pirouette
gibbous
necrophilia
sentinel
listless
specious





capacious
unrecognisable
swollen
truth
tumult
electrify
me
you
it
freckle
quietly
ejects
utterances
past
undulations
collecting
tendrils
dancing
as
checking
altitudes
indicated
sibilance
asunder
parodies
sky
flavour
framing
spirals
fragility
hidden
particles
sunfire
matter
landslide
whisper
rattles
permeating
gravity
bones
laden

Word-a-flies #2

violence magnitude mimic instability with oscillation orange fantastic universal binary rippling precipitation muscles reluctantly distilled rifts cleft fathoms carve unscathed silence unrecognisable swollen truth tumult electrify me you it freckle quietly ejects utterances past undulations collecting tendrils dancing as checking altitudes indicated sibilance asunder parodies sky flavour framing spirals fragility hidden particles sunfire matter landslide whisper rattles permeating gravity bones laden leaves circling bound shibboleth ribbons claimed osmotic chaos allelomimesis metronome incision Umlaut misplaced echo chasm rhyme Zugunruhe moon compass orientation east integrity aching solitude feathers pirouette violence magnitude mimic instability with oscillation orange fantastic universal binary rippling precipitation muscles reluctantly distilled rifts cleft fathoms carve unscathed silence responding bitter violence magnitude mimic instability with oscillation orange fantastic universal binary rippling precipitation muscles reluctantly reply lure opens suture scattered leaves circling bound shibboleth ribbons claimed osmotic chaos allelomimesis metronome incision moon compass orientation east integrity aching solitude feathers pirouette gibbous necrophilia sentinel listless specious capacious Umlaut misplaced echo chasm rhyme Zugunruhe distilled rifts cleft fathoms carve unscathed silence violence magnitude mimic instability with oscillation orange fantastic universal binary rippling precipitation muscles reluctantly responding bitter reply lure opens suture scattered responding bitter reply lure opens suture scattered through capsules energy wings duck monarch bee chance play aphasia synaesthete linctus scribble hieroglyphics sand hurling cries velvet gibbous necrophilia sentinel listless specious capacious unrecognisable swollen truth tumult electrify me you it freckle quietly ejects utterances past undulations collecting tendrils dancing as checking altitudes indicated sibilance asunder parodies sky flavour framing spirals fragility hidden particles sunfire matter landslide whisper rattles permeating gravity Umlaut misplaced echo chasm rhyme Zugunruhe violence magnitude mimic instability with oscillation orange fantastic universal binary rippling precipitation muscles reluctantly leaves circling bound shibboleth ribbons claimed osmotic chaos allelomimesis metronome incision through capsules energy wings duck monarch bee chance play aphasia synaesthete linctus scribble hieroglyphics sand hurling cries velvet moon compass orientation east integrity aching solitude feathers pirouette.