The second instalment of Tamarin Norwood’s initial response to Paul Scott’s sign language artwork ‘Three Queens’: 2 – After watching for the first time… — Two things came up during this first encounter with the poem. I was anxious. I […]
In the first of four diary blogs, Tamarin Norwood guides us through her response to Paul Scott’s ‘Three Queens’…… 1 – Before I watched the poem… — You only get one chance to encounter a poem for the first time. […]
Howard Hardiman responds to That Day, by Donna Williams. I’ll admit I struggled with this for a number of reasons. First there was the wall of performance anxiety that I get with commissions. In particular, being asked to respond to […]
Sophia Burns gives us a peep at her diary as she watches Paul Scott’s sign poem for the first time….. My first impressions after watching Paul’s poem Three Queens for the first time…. movement in space…I like the way Paul […]
Giving away my babies…My name is Donna Williams and I am a poet. I create poems in both sign language and English, and I lovingly craft them. I start with an idea, build it up, and when I’m happy (this […]
STARTING ART WORK by Fliss Watts, artist of the People of the Eye collective 5th March 2012 Initial thoughts on this project: It’s quite unlike anything I’ve done before so I’m feeling very tentative at this point – also though […]
#Digital partners A-n’s recent focus on ‘digital partners’ is timely for People of the Eye. As a collective of (British) sign language poets and visual artists, we are based in various locations across the UK and may never meet. We […]
Introducing… Hello, we are the People of the Eye collective. We are a group of visual artists and sign poets who are gathered together to explore in various ways, through various media the nature of the visual in sign language […]