“When you cut into the present,
the future leaks out.”
William Burroughs
I thought it would be interesting to set parameters
when playing with newspaper blackouts, and so I combined subtractive poetry with six word memoirs. I
chose to black out text from a series of 'News in Brief' stories and to reduce
these down to six of the original words to tell a new story.
This is a tool that could
be applied to assist in the creative naming of artwork, exhibitions, or personal
design philosophies.
Six word memoirs are a concentrated form of storytelling. The
idea is that stories can be communicated effectively and more poetically
through a limited word count. Writing six word memoirs is fun and addictive,
finding the six magical words within one short newspaper story is even better.
http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
