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the sensation is without artifact
Cloud Cover
Stitch Meter
Knit Slip
This triptych is formed from three different manifestations of the text of a single poem--'the sensation is without artifact.' The first manifestation, 'cloud cover' is a cyanotype of the text printed on a cloudy day. The diffuse light and uneven substrate combine to blur entire swathes of text leaving behind undulating legible stanzas. 'stitch meter' is a video of another cyanotype print of the text that has been cut into strips and then fed through a sewing machine to produce lined paper yarn. 'knit slip' is the textile that I knitted from that paper yarn. In the process of knitting, I slipped stitches and carried the yarn over in order to reveal selected phrases.
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Kelly Hoffer (@kellyrosehoffer) is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poems UNDERSHORE (2023) was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her book manuscript Fire Series was a finalist for the 2021 National Poetry Series and the Georgia Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, American Chordata, TAGVVERK, and Chicago Review, among others. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Jacket2, Cultural Critique, Inscription, and The Henry James Review. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor of Poetry. Learn more at: https://www.kellyrosehoffer.com/