Poem 91, 2024. A digitally scanned assemblage poem composed from fragments of newspaper articles and editorial pieces.
The artwork is presented as a chaotic mosaic of ripped and unevenly torn newspaper clippings, visually fragmented, scattered, and layered over a starkly contrasting black-and-white background. The irregular edges and varying placements of the fragments convey a sense of disintegration and disorder, meant to represent disrupted communication and fragmented narratives.
Among the partial texts, words and phrases such as “SOCIAL,” “FASCISM,” “LESSER,” “DIVISION,” and “PICK UP THE PIECES” are prominently visible, emphasizing the political and societal critique at the poem’s core. The irregular placement of these textual elements, combined with abrupt cuts that obscure portions of sentences and thoughts, reinforces the theme of confusion, incompleteness, and the breakdown of coherent discourse.
Poem 91, 2024. A digitally scanned assemblage poem composed from fragments of newspaper articles and editorial pieces.
The artwork is presented as a chaotic mosaic of ripped and unevenly torn newspaper clippings, visually fragmented, scattered, and layered over a starkly contrasting black-and-white background. The irregular edges and varying placements of the fragments convey a sense of disintegration and disorder, meant to represent disrupted communication and fragmented narratives.
Among the partial texts, words and phrases such as “SOCIAL,” “FASCISM,” “LESSER,” “DIVISION,” and “PICK UP THE PIECES” are prominently visible, emphasizing the political and societal critique at the poem’s core. The irregular placement of these textual elements, combined with abrupt cuts that obscure portions of sentences and thoughts, reinforces the theme of confusion, incompleteness, and the breakdown of coherent discourse.
Benjamin Rodriguez is a nonbinary artist and is currently an undergraduate at Illinois State University.
Fuck cops, fuck heteronormativity, fuck capitalism.