Silence is overrated

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Odd to be posting again after a hiatus of some several years.

Not sure why I stopped - I just did - lapsed into the visual equivalent of silence.

About 10 years ago, I lapsed into poetic silence too.  After 15 years of fanatical devotion to the reading and writing of poems, I simply stopped.

At the time, a friend of mine (fellow poet, co-founder of a micro-press which published beautiful little books of poetry) quoted artist Joseph Beuys: "The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overrated".

Has taken me 10 years to get it - but I do get it now - my silence was indeed overrated and I feel like shouting.  Or at least whispering.
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kparks's avatar
So did you stop working on art, or just stop posting stuff? (I see some not too old posts in your gallery, but are they recent work?)