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The Birth Exchange Project
Posted by linden on January 19th, 2009 filed in artists, exchanges, exhibitions, my art, poem, printmakers, prints
i dreamed my little girl, lithograph, emboss, relief print, 2006
In 2006 I participated in an international print exchange. The Birth Exchange Project, organised by Patricia Hunsinger and Sylvia Taylor, embraced the theme of birth as an experience uniting women from around the world. The experience of birth, or of not experiencing birth, has been expressed [...]
The void
Posted by linden on July 1st, 2008 filed in poem
the void is smooth,
soft with long licks
of velvet tongue;
at times
jagged, it’s cold brittle
frame gaping, ice laden
again
as dark as pitch
it summons the moments
least willing to be remembered;
relentlessly
piercing sharp stabs
ripple, swoon without constraint
burst achingly through vision,
but
endless, yet contained
within a fleshy mould;
ever present.
