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The artwork and photography associated with the Poethead site 2008-2021
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Visual Arts, Collage, Ekphrasis, Salma Ahmad Caller, Poetry, photography, HiRISE
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The Original artwork associated with the Poethead Site 2008-2021
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Salma Ahmad Caller
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Website of <a href="https://www.salmaahmadcaller.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Salma Ahmad Caller</a><br />Making Den of Sibyl Wren <a href="https://poethead.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/making-den-of-sibyl-wren-by-salma-ahmad-caller/">(Poethead)</a>
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2018-2020
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WordPress
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Salma Ahmad Caller
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© Salma Ahmad Caller 2018
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Salma Ahmad Caller
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Web
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English
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"Making Den Of Sibyl Wren" - by Salma Ahmad Caller
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<p><span>A photo-essay detailing the creation of an artwork "Den Of Sibyl Wren (2018) for the book "A Hierarchy of Halls" (Published Smithereens Press, 2018)<br /><br /></span></p>
<div align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>The Den of Sibyl Wren</strong> is my response to Chris Murray's <strong>A Hierarchy of Halls</strong> published by <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em><span style="color:#f2973d;text-decoration:underline;">Smithereens Press</span></em></span> It is my response to words Chris wrote about how she feels about this poem, and what she sees in her mind’s eye.</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"> Details of the image '<strong>Den of Sibyl Wren'</strong> by <em><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#f2973d;"><a style="color:#f2973d;" href="https://www.salmaahmadcaller.com/">Salma Ahmad Caller</a></span> </span></em></span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>Materials</strong>: Watercolour, Indian ink, collage, graphite and gold pigment on Fabriano acid-free paper 57cm x 76.3cm<br /><br /><b>Notes on the process of creating the art work for 'A Hierarchy of Halls' (Smithereens Press, 2018)</b><br /></em></span></span>
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<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;">My process involves intense working back and forth with words and images in my imagination. I write a lot as part of my creative process as an artist, and these writings help me create and develop visual images. The so-called ‘visual’ image is to me embodied, materialised, haptic and tactile. So the ‘image’ in poetry and metaphorical writing is almost the same as the visual image in art, to me. So there is not a huge gap between text and image. Not in my mind in any case. The flat 2 D image is neither flat nor 2 D – but rather it is a complex and multi-dimensional terrain of emotion, sensation and concept, just as is the written word, especially in poetry.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;" align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>So it felt very natural to respond to Chris Murray’s very imagistic poetry, which I already love so much.</em></span></p>
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<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;">In preparing to make work in response to <strong>A Hierarchy of Halls,</strong> I spent time reading and re-reading the poems and reading and re-reading Chris’s little notes she had sent to me via Twitter. And so the The <strong>Den of Sibyl Wren</strong> emerged. My notes on my own thoughts and responses to reading <strong>A Hierarchy of Halls</strong> and to what Chris told me about her notion of a Sibyl that represented the wren and its qualities:</span></p>
<ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">The smallness and greatness of Sibyl Wren, her green den of spaces that we cannot see and her flight paths carved out in the sky. Tiny but potent and majestic in her domain.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A shamanistic female bird being interpreting or bringing the mysteries of the other worldly to us.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A materialisation of the invisible.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A feminine nature of delicacy, strength and bravery. A guardian.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">An oracle seeing into the unknown and leading the reader bravely forwards through pain and difficulty.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A garden world of tiny potent things.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A sky above that is carved into great structures and pathways by nature that we cannot see.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A fecundity and joyfulness. Spring, summer.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A soaring upwards towards mystery.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">Invisibility of worlds around us and within us.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">The dandelion clock telling of another time besides the time we know.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A bird shrine under a shadowy tree to the dead bird in Chris’s poem.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">A tiny female presence sitting and moving in an underworld of unseen unspoken spaces.</span></li>
</ul><br /><h3 style="text-align:center;" align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;">Twitter Notes</span></h3>
<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;">What <strong>Chris Murray</strong> said in a series of little Twitter notes to me: <em>“The chapbook is called 'a hierarchy of halls' and is about small things, flight, wrens, and huge dreamlike structures are implied. My sibyls and messengers are birdlike creatures/ the little chapbook is called 'a hierarchy of halls' and is about a wren's flight through my garden, am obsessed with bird workings. I didn't see a sibyl specifically in bodies, but the first image on the Poethead page has a little putti. This is how my head works: I see the wren as a type of sibyl, a small messenger, and female. The sibyl should represent the wren! A type of oracle who leads one into the book.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000000;">All images & images associated with <strong>'Den of Sibyl wren',</strong> <strong>'A Hierarchy of Halls', </strong>and <strong>'Gold Friend'</strong> are <span style="color:#000080;"><strong>©</strong> </span><strong>Salma Ahmad Caller</strong></span></p>
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Salma Ahmad Caller is an artist and a hybrid of cultures and faiths. She is drawn to hybrid and ornamental forms, and to how the body expresses itself in the mind to create an embodied ‘image’. UK-based, she was born in Iraq to an Egyptian father and a British mother and grew up in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. With a background in art history and theory, medicine and pharmacology, and several years teaching cross-cultural ways of seeing via non-Western artefacts at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, she now works as an independent artist and teacher.
A photo-essay detailing the creation of an artwork "Den Of Sibyl Wren (2018) for the book "A Hierarchy of Halls" (Published Smithereens Press, 2018)
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Salma Ahmad Caller
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<a href="https://www.salmaahmadcaller.com/">Website</a> of Salma Ahmad Caller<br /><br />Making Den Of Sibyl Wren Photo-Essay, Published Poethead 26/01/2018<br /><br />Online URL: <em><a href="https://poethead.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/making-den-of-sibyl-wren-by-salma-ahmad-caller/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://poethead.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/making-den-of-sibyl-wren-by-salma-ahmad-caller/</a></em>
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WordPress
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2018-2020
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Salma Ahmad Caller
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All images & images associated with 'Den of Sibyl wren', 'A Hierarchy of Halls', and 'Gold Friend' are © Salma Ahmad Caller
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/sp23ahierarchyofhalls">"A Hierarchy of Halls"</a> Published by Smithereens Press, 2018 Internet Archive
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Visual arts, Materials: Watercolour, Indian ink, collage, graphite and gold pigment on Fabriano acid-free paper 57cm x 76.3cm
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Visual
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Visual Arts
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art object
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Global
Book Covers
Collaborative Art
Collaborative Work
Creation
Digital
Ekphrasis
Independent Publishers
Index
Internet Archive
Irish
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Online
Open Source
Poetry
Smithereens Press
Visual Arts
Visual Imagery
Web Resource
Women Poets