(And all on a post-storm #EasterSunday - rebalancing things on a weekend dominated by war, its horrors and overblown rhetoric, religion with its totalising urbi et orbi-isms, and science’s gestural orbiting of our nearby satellite…)

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Linda’s sonnet ingeniously picks up the materiality of @sophieherx.bsky.social’s opening collage and the developing argument of sonnets 2 & 3 (by @kaddybenyon.bsky.social & @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social) and focusses those in the graphic quality of a typewritten text - remember those?

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Art Sonnet Chain, 4: Linda France Linda France’s latest collections include Laurel Prize winner The Knucklebone Floor (Smokestack, 2022) and Startling (Faber & New Writing North, 2022), which includes work f…

We’re delighted to welcome back our #EcoSonnetChain editor, #LindaFrance, to conclude the opening quartet of our #ArtSonnetChain.

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@tamaryoseloff.bsky.social’s sonnet to #AnaMendieta ends on such a strong last line. Here’s the build to that, plus an image from @tate.bsky.social:

…Blood sister, you bloom
in flame, sprout feathers and fly, incite
a riot of blossom. Here you never die…

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Art Sonnet Chain, 3: Tamar Yoseloff Silueta (i.m. Ana Mendieta 1948 –1985) Life doesn’t last; art doesn’t last either:both consigned to earth. And it was earthyou desired, plunging your body in mudto restage your birth, to mess with …

Our third poem is by @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social and is in memoriam #AnaMendieta. It picks up the themes of the #ArtSonnetChain so far and restates them with equal lyrical grace and still greater urgency:

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Hang Up | The Art Institute of Chicago Eva Hesse, 1966

Apropos of which, I was very struck by #EvaHesse’s remark about her piece ‘Hang Up’:

‘It was the first time my idea of absurdity or extreme feeling came through… It is the most ridiculous structure that I ever made and that is why it is really good.’

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Loved this list made manifesto from @kaddybenyon.bsky.social ’s sonnet about #EvaHesse:

She wore her installations like a crown
of bivalves, netted pomelos, glass-blown
fishing floats caught in the drag tides of fear,
of loss, of mockery…

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…and her thinking about duration and durability: should art ‘last’? Is ‘probably’ an acceptable answer?

(‘Untitled or Not Yet’, (1966) photographed in #EvaHesse’s Bowery apartment/studio in 1969 by Hermann Landshoff.)

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Art Sonnet Chain, 2: Kaddy Benyon after ‘Untitled or Not Yet’ (1966), by Eva Hesse The trouble with beauty is its uglinessyet without it, no encounter with truth.We cannot make groundbreaking art unlesswe refuse beauty’s ruthless p…

Our second sonnet in the #ArtSonnetChain is an elegant, subtle study by @kaddybenyon.bsky.social of the work of #EvaHesse - a fascinating artist in terms of her seemingly unlikely uses of (then) unusual materials…

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The latest sonnet chain has begun: it’s a) our 4th and b) an #ArtSonnetChain, edited by @sophieherx.bsky.social & Nancy Campbell.

And the first line to be carried, last line of sonnet 1 to 1st line of sonnet 2, is by Sophie:

‘The trouble with beauty is its ugliness…’

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Art Sonnet Chain, 1: Sophie Herxheimer Sophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet from south London. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern, The Museum of Liverpool, and along the sea-front at Margate. Her collections include Velkom to Ink…

It’s sonnet 1 of the #ArtSonnetChain and it’s a witty and polemic cut-up by editor @sophieherx.bsky.social of Gombrich’s Story of Art:

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Our editors are currently approaching folk to set up the chain, which will be posted fortnightly on the #NewBootsAndPantisocracies site and shared here and on Effbok, TwittereX, & Insta, then (all being well) published in the autumn.

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Sophie and Nancy will be looking for art structured like a sonnet, for sonnets that can be drawn, snipped, or modelled. As long as it is reproducible on paper in black and white, and something like a last line can be handed on, let's see how far we can go!

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…They hope this theme might allow not just ekphrasis or poems about iconic (and less well-known) figures, but experiment: sonnets about processes, techniques, ideas - about art-making itself.

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The #ArtSonnetChain editors are longtime #NewBootsAndPantisocracies co-conspirator, previous chain contributor & cover artist @sophieherx.bsky.social, and the wonderful poet/artist of the idea of Northness (& Greenlandic), #NancyCampbell.

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As in previous years, #NewBootsAndPantisocracies interrupt your #ValentinesDay weekend to bring you a collaborative sonnet-y announcement:

For our 4th chain, #WhalebackCityPress have asked @sophieherx.bsky.social & #NancyCampbell to edit an #ArtSonnetChain.

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