In my first post as a contributor to Moving Poems, I am delighted to introduce to the site the work of Kathryn Darnell. Her Write Out: A Scribe’s Haiku #3 is part of a series of animations of original haiku about her work as a calligrapher. Music is by Elden Kelly.
Kathryn has been a professional illustrator and calligrapher for over 30 years, dividing her time between commercial art and fine art practice. Her “animated calligraphics” are an extension of her passion for letters. Her personal artwork is regularly exhibited in galleries, and she is an adjunct professor of art at Lansing Community College.
In 2018, her video, Things I Found in the Hedge, in collaboration with UK poet Lucy English, was the winner of the inaugural edition of the Atticus Review Videopoem Contest, which I judged and discussed in Moving Poems Magazine.
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[…] As adjudicator of the Atticus Review Poetry Film Competition in 2018, I awarded first prize to an earlier film by Kathryn Darnell, Things I Found in the Hedge. This was a collaboration with UK poet Lucy English, who commissioned the piece for her larger poetry film project, The Book of Hours. This film was also part of the Poetry & Video international touring program I curated the following year. Another of Darnell’s films I have shared here at Moving Poems is Write Out: A Scribe’s Haiku #3. […]