RUTH BAVETTA: “I’ve been a visual artist longer than I’ve been a poet. For years I tried to find a way to integrate my art and my words. It wasn’t until 2005 that they came together when I started to work on the pages of old books, mostly with watercolors and inks, carving poems from the text that I found there.”
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–from Rattle #29, Summer 2008
Tribute to Visual Poetry
December 17th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Beautiful visually and as poetry…a good marriage of both.
December 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Bavetta’s poetry has a tactile quality that gives real depth to her work. The reader can “feel” the meaning in the real sense of that word. It’s mixed media in the best sense. The poet knows no limit.
December 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I really love this piece. Beautiful and true. Small in stature, mythic in proportion. The wonderful orbs are like so many stars, so many worlds, in a deep vault of sky. All the parts come together so well. I feel myself a traveler in every sense, and even our Earth a traveler too,and this piece reminds me of that , the temporariness of us all, and the gift of getting to experience any of it. I love how the words not used in the poem remain present there in shadow, some more visable than others. I love the image of the window as an archway. I don’t know how you do it Ruth, it’s lovely.
December 17th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Lovely, Ruth
Like looking out the window of a train as it travels through wide open spaces on a dark night. I can’t think of a word for that feeling, your piece evokes it.
Marian V.
July 29th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Ruth,
Great idea. I two am a poet/visual artist and always looking for a way to combine the two. Your solution is truly unique, and gives me hope.
May 16th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Exquisite!