Preserve: Artist Statement
Preserve is an exploration of poetry and preservation: from the preservation of poems themselves, to poetry’s ability to preserve us. Inspired by lines from “The Waste Land,” by TS Eliot: “These fragments I have shored against my ruins,” where the poet gathers together fragments of literature that have meaning for him—lines of poetry written by others—and melds them together into a new poem. Musing on these lines I wondered, What poems would I choose to preserve? What poems would help me preserve myself?
