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Collaboration with poet Jen Hofer
pages 1-2 of 15, 7.5” x 17” spread, 2008
15 page image/poem created in collaboration with Jen Hofer, forthcoming in the next edition of Area Sneaks, a journal edited by Rita Gonzales and Joseph Mosconi. Here facing pages are shown together as one sees them when looking at the open book.
We have been collaborating since mid-2008 on multiple projects that involve a dynamic conversational process. We begin by simultaneously sending a missive to the other (Jen’s in the form of text, Hillary’s in the form of image(s)). Each of us then responds to the other’s instigation in our “lingua franca,” sends the new installment back for further response from the other, and so on; the pieces accrue heft, substance and complexity as we work. The images and text accumulated over several weeks are then used as the source for creating an integrated image/text work. The process activates the intricate, intimate relationship between interpretation, translation, and representation of ideas, with a focus (so far) on everyday landscapes of American empire.