Visual Poetry from Brendan Bray

Visual Poetry from Brendan Bray

Baby Teeth Journal
Mixed Media, Poetry, Visual Art, Visual Poetry

Content Warning: The piece ‘Sacrifice’ includes themes of suicide.

 

Sacrifice

Pieces of a cardboard box are torn and layered over each other, a black and white image of a figure wearing a masquerade style mask with horns is on the bottom left. Cut out text is placed across the image.

Transcript:

Your face

Lit almost everything

Towards shape

Falling on

He hangs

Shooting like night

 

Capital

Pieces of a cardboard box are torn and layered over each other, a black and white image of a figure has been torn at the top of the head and the bust. Below it black and white images of mean looking dogs stare out at the viewer.

Transcript:

Exploited in

Greed and worship

The

Fallacious and hope-destroying dogma

Pound into the public mind

Untold millions

 

Flora

3 panels of pieces the same cardboard. Black and white images and cut out text are pasted over each. Panel 1 an image of the Madonna Panel 2 an image of children in strange animal masks Panel 3 an image of a couple laying in embrace.

Transcript:

Of cactus

Grandiflorus

A woman I met while staying in a hotel

Truth and nothing

A cancer and cure

Alternated with grape juice

People can grow

For Lily-of-the-Valley

A body clogged with toxins

 

Reaper

A black and white image of a small boy with a toy guitar around his neck is layered over the same torn cardboard background, with cut out text pasted beside it.

Transcript:

In Brighton and elsewhere

You are

The day of their death

 

Moon

A black and white image of a shirtless figure with their head replaced by a black circle is stretching out one arm, position to look as though it has throw the black and white cut-out circle at the tope of the image. Cut out text is to the right .

Transcript:

Something cerebral

Tender

And Bound

To smoky air

Alkali

 

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