This has been one of my favourite outcomes of extracting text!
I didn't begin with a theme, but just simply started by picking out key words and phrases. The bird watching book by Armstrong was written with such passion and absorbing description, that I found myself drawn to the bird's courtships and habitats, resulting in poetry that suggests love, relationship and loss.
It was the first extraction process from a book (the others being from newspapers) and it took quite a long time to compile, but one that I will definitely repeat!
'In this Grey Wind', 2015
130 x 210mm
Inkjet printed on 120gsm White goatskin paper.
Cover: Judd Street paper 'Diana Wilbraham, blue'
Sample from page one:
The
birds they came to meet me
in a tangle of jessamine and
honeysuckle
blackbirds
singing
exultant
melodies
of
ardour
and
love
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