POETRY ILLUSTRATION
POETRY ILLUSTRATION
I’ve always been inspired by poetry. I actually enjoy translating poetry from Romanian and Spanish in my free time! Through my process, I’ve come to see poetry illustration as a form of visual translation—with just as much baggage, potential for failure, and potential for new/hidden meaning as translation across language.
“Trying to Pray, James Wright” Scroll
Traincar Book for Osip Mandelstam
Painting after the poem “Youth” by James Wright
”…
He will be getting dark, soon,
And loom through new snow.
I know his ghost will drift home
To the Ohio River, and sit down, alone,
Whittling a root.
He will say nothing.
The waters flow past, older, younger
Than he is, or I am.”
