Scansion Art plays with using visual symbols to represent the rhythm, sounds, and devices used in poetry, expressing the development of patterns and overall shape of poetic forms.
In this piece, syllables of a poem are expressed through poses by black belt karate specialist, Erin Mulligan. Poem copyright by Kate Jo Westfall
Framed image is 22" x 32"
Comes with 10" x 13" framed poem and key
What Is Fire?
I am fast interactions, I’m chemical changes.
Most often, I’m oxygen orgies.
The more space in the place where the substance is hot,
the more frequent and fast the exchanges.
I am cylinders lighting in waving flash points,
the manifested spectrum
of the elements’ colors, revealed at ignition.
In my movement, I’m all-over joints.
I am quick, electronic agitation.
I am rapid small losses and gains.
I’m the light and the heat that’s contained in all things,
augmented atomic mutation.
Key
Larger expressions and full strike pictures indicate stressed syllables.
Blocks or mid-movement pictures indicate unstressed syllables.
Matching star colors indicate consonance.
Matching belt colors indicate assonance.
Matching circled groupings indicate rhymes.
