James Corah
Artist: James Corah
Planet: Yellow Seventeen Artwork: Yellow Seventeen |
Description: The exoplanets beyond Neptune and Pluto are unknowable to us though to a certain extent they are familiar; they have inhabitants, customs, geographies, atmospheres, weather cycles, origins, and endings. Out there is life, it is other life though still life.
Yellow-Seventeen is such a planet. Yellow-Seventeen is an attempt through poetry to explore the world, its customs, and its inhabitants, delve into its oceanography, and explore its history. Originally Yellow-Seventeen was to take the form of two hundred and eighty nine Senryu (Senryu being ‘human Haikus’ of 17 syllables over three lines of five-seven-five, two hundred and eighty nine being seventeen squared). This transformed into the more reasonable set of poems in the exhibition through time restraints and just plain rebellion against the restrictions I placed on myself. Each poem presented here has also been recorded as a video I have posted on YouTube. This is my first exhibition and very much the first time I have shown my poetry to more than a handful of people. It is the first time I have created videos and recorded myself reading poems. The process, like Yellow-Seventeen itself, has been a journey into the unknown. Yellow-Seventeen would not have been possible without the support and inspiration of the other ‘Planeteenies,’ particularly Ryan Thompson, and from friends and family, particularly Hannah. Special thanks to Thomas Day for both pushing me onwards through regular moments of doubt and for helping come up with the word ‘Yellow-Seventian.’ In our own way we are all Yellow-Seventian, we are unknown to each other until we explore what connects us. |
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Photography by Strawbleu Editions