“Ghost Log”
Collaborators’ Q&A: Artist Janice Redman: The sense of time passed/passing, a space revealed, sand slipping away. The grasping, the inability to hold on… it is all so ephemeral and mysterious. These qualities within the poem drew me to it in a visceral way. Poet Jennifer K. Sweeney: I was so interested to see how both holding/carrying and how negative space would be interpreted. The beautiful piece that Janice Redman made both answered that and surprised me at the same time. It gave me a different visual language for holding something that has no matter.
Janice Redman is a sculptor and mother who lives in Truro, Massachusetts. Her work is in the permanent collections of The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. Poet Jennifer K. Sweeney’s most recent poetry collections are Foxlogic, Fireweed and Dear Question: A Conversation, written collaboratively with L.I. Henley. The recipient of many honors, including the James Laughlin Award and a Pushcart Prize.
