Henry W.Targowski

  • SPACE PAC

hbk: none
pbk: author's original copy, (San Francisco, California), 1969

ISBN none

concrete poetry, poem object, visual artwork, collage, visual poems, mobile, 3D space

Original artwork designed to be converted into a mobile of a planetary system. One master copy. Never published.


"Inspired by the synergetic geometry of R.Buckminster Fuller, I created a set of collages featuring a 'space' theme. Each page incorporated an unfolded geometric form... tetrahedron, dodecahedron, octahedron, icosahedron. On each shape I added planetary textures cut from satelite photographs, and surrounded them with other space imagery to make them into individual concrete poems. These shapes could also be cut-out and folded into 3D forms which would then become part of a planetary mobile. Basically, it was the visual equivalent of 'word play', incorporating multiple puns and metaphors.

"These poems were intended to be printed on card, and would include very thin clear plexiglass (perspex) rods and transparent nylon thread, all to be packaged in a box. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford the color printing, so the original art is the only copy." --Henry W.Targowski.





Of Related Interest

  • Art
  • Communication & Media
  • Concrete Poetry / Visual Poetry
  • CyberCulture
  • Cyberpunk
  • Dada / Surrealism
  • Future
  • Postmodern
  • Science Fiction
  • Slipstream

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