Universal Text, Nathan Franklin Pickerell

Abstraction is the universal language. When I make visual art that does not include reference to societal culture, anyone can read my poems. Here, I am introducing the debut of my universal language. In these visual poems, if the artistic elements—line, shape, form, color, value, texture, and mark-making—are the words, the principles of design— contrast, balance, rhythm, pattern, movement, and variety—are the structure. I'm writing poems about the anomaly that is the pattern-based physics of the universe and the patternless act of possessing a consciousness.