Cantos-Thinking Vessels is a text-based work which uses visual art notebooks collected over thirty years as found text reframed in the style of The Cantos of Ezra Pound* as an epic, non-rhyming, stream-of-consciousness, prose poem, where unmediated thought processes are exposed as the mind wanders in and out and around thoughts about creating, art, being, politics and representation, through times of inspiration, self-doubt and trauma. Cantos-Thinking Vessels traces the ideas considered through the development of the Vessels paintings.

*The Cantos of Ezra Pond, 'Uncreative Writing, Managing Language in the Digital Age' by Kenneth Goldsmith 2011

This project was supported by an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award 2022

Also see Artwork Vessels (parts 1 & 2)