Art Elements: Line, Texture, Form …Fun Food-tasting

Leading up to the publication of DrawBridge: Drawing Alongside My Brother’s Schizophrenia in May of 2019, a braided poem lauds three of the seven Art elements: LINE in poetry and art, TEXTURE and FORM in an artful food-tasting. 

Stay tuned for more art elements braided into text over the next few months. Of ART’s seven elements (line, colour, form, shape, space, texture and value), LINE best exemplifies book’s illustrator, Stephen A. Corcoran’s bold style and the story of his late-life redemption. 

Creating the three strands of the braid are firstly, poetry; secondly, art; finally, a Kauai jam-tasting celebration.  LINE thus morphs into TEXTURE and FORM at Monkeypod:

 “Monkeypod Jam works with over 25 Kauai farmers to create 55 seasonal preserves. Monkeypod is deeply committed to Kauai agriculture, green practices and impeccably high preserving standards.” From https://monkeypodjam.com

Line in poetry

cuts

the width of the page—

verse of one dimension

makes a point without breadth

adding depth in full measure.

Rhythms sing and

bring you up

short—

Line in art

joins two points:

pastel, pencil or paint

to outline 2D edges—

straight or curved,

thick or thin—

lines feed expressive movement (dance) or

smooth or detached sound (music)—

Food art lines up

plating and plaiting in

3D curves to soften the palate—

Monkeypod Jam favours and flavours

small silver spoonful’s—

jam and jelly

preserves and ferments,

syrup and chutney

curd and marmalade—

a luncheon compote comprises

starfruit-jelly smudges on cream-cheese crackers—

a slab of rustic bread for textural contrast—

egg salad l’egg-ato and pickled-bean stacatto—

mango yolk on vanilla-bean custard—a cantata

of sparkling pineapple-ginger syrup & soda

All align

in poem, song, sketch, painting … in a dance of

art elements: line, texture, form.