Eye to Eye
by Alex Castro
Is this a diagram? A poem? And where do you begin? Essentially, it is both diagram and poem, and you begin wherever you choose.
Justin Sirois is a poet and graphic artist living in Baltimore. He says, "Three Wells is a nonlinear, unending sentence that can be started at any word. It's a Venn diagram* narrative about three perspectives (or systems or characters) caught in a conflict over a very precious natural resource. The three feuding systems end up sharing a fraction of what they could."
Having recently been in Ireland, a land filled with language and debate, I myself see three earnest gentlemen sitting in a pub, coursing over this diagram endlessly. Where does your mind place it?
As a note, Sirois was recently awarded the highest 2006 Individual Artist Award for poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council.
—Alex Castro
* Venn diagram: a graph that employs closed curves and especially circles to represent logical relations between and operations on sets and the terms of propositions by the inclusion, exclusion, or intersection of the curves.
Justin Sirois is a poet and graphic artist living in Baltimore. He says, "Three Wells is a nonlinear, unending sentence that can be started at any word. It's a Venn diagram* narrative about three perspectives (or systems or characters) caught in a conflict over a very precious natural resource. The three feuding systems end up sharing a fraction of what they could."
Having recently been in Ireland, a land filled with language and debate, I myself see three earnest gentlemen sitting in a pub, coursing over this diagram endlessly. Where does your mind place it?
As a note, Sirois was recently awarded the highest 2006 Individual Artist Award for poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council.
—Alex Castro
* Venn diagram: a graph that employs closed curves and especially circles to represent logical relations between and operations on sets and the terms of propositions by the inclusion, exclusion, or intersection of the curves.
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