STATEMENT ABOUT CHANDLER'S POETRY

POETRY, as a genre, is the art of language. I write and perform poetry embedded with rhetorical and theatrical technique. Focusing on the mode--the resources--of language, I use language to exploit innovative uses of words as signifiers. The mode of collage is form. Combining poetry and collage as partners in artistic documentation is a form of dual storytelling. Images and words each have the potential to reveal and illuminate ideas and feelings as well as being ideal channels for educating and raising the conscience of audiences.

Some poems focus on events in the lives of protagonists, real and imaginary. Other poems pay homage to figures from history. Yet other poems co-mingle installation works with poetics and by combining social science data collection methods with art production to produce works which are provocative or socially controversial. Together, poetics and form draw on my two great passions, writing and visual production.

--RMC