ARTIST’S STATEMENT
By Tanya Joyce, Emeryville, CA
Grand Prize Winner, 2012 Dancing Poetry Contest and Festival
I am a crazy quilt
A pattern of crackle glazes
Filled with electric charge
Behind spring flowers
I am scraps of velvet,
Snippets of desire
Joined in ragged shapes,
Edged with scallops,
Fingering my life.
A saunterer excited by stillness,
A talker excited by listening,
A lover of moonlight
Warm in the sunshine,
A poet who paints,
A painter who writes,
I am a wailing wall
With prayers on scraps of paper
Stuck into crevices,
Pockets, and back packs,
Hopes waiting to take root
And bloom.
I am a scrapbooker,
A clipper of articles,
A cutter of tape
And ribbon. I am a ribbon
Of star light. Once you catch me
What do you have?
I am a crazy quilt,
A chalker of hopscotch,
A splasher of ink,
A maker of skeletons.
I am not here or there,
Not playing hide and seek
Out there.
Going somewhere,
Following scraps of paradise,
I am
A crazy quilt.
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| Tanya Joyce reads "Artist's Statement" before the dance performance |
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| Natica and Richard begin the performance of "Artist's Statement." |
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| Natica performes a solo as the artist searching her soul for a description of herself. |
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| Joyfully, she settles on describing herself as a crazy quilt. |
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| As a crazy quilt, she joyfully expands the description of herself. |
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| Tanya Joyce takes her on-stage bow with the dancers after the performance. |
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