(WORK) (100 DAYS OF HIDDEN POEMS)
THE BRIEF
100 Days is an annual project at New York City’s School of Visual Arts that was founded by Michael Bierut. The project consists of spending 100 consecutive days documenting a process with a chosen creative endeavor.
THE WORKPoems allow me to write the things I don’t know hot to, or don’t want to say. Sometimes the words flow, sometimes I struggle to find the right ones. In times of struggle, I would make blackout poetry out of boring old newspapers. Today, I am no longer surrounded by newspapers, but by boxes. Boxes of all the things I buy; boxes that I don’t give a second glance to; boxes that exist only as containers for the desirable items they hold inside them.
For 100 days, I attempt to uncover the verse hidden in the rigamarole labels of the packaging paraphernalia that surrounds me: finding the lyrical in the mundane.
Safe haven.Let me eat cake.When sleep begins to feel like...
And then what wil you do?It takes a village.Sometime all you want to say is—
Know when to flipAll you need is... an O-K.said my thighs to my jeans.
ADVISORDebbie Millman