Graffiti and poetry

My first public “literature” were the graffiti on the left and right river bank of Ljubljanica (The sun is shining and your hair is fuzzy; This little dance across the empty street; It’s a strange evening, this evening; When you are twentyseven…)

These were the vagabond deeds, the freedom of “forbidden” excitement, some sort of street-haiku poetry. Its poetic quality was not only in the words themselves, but in the combination of all the elements – the banks by the river, the streets, exposure to the passengers, the intimacy of the handwriting and the message. The attraction of a street-poetry is also in its vulnerability, because it is sooner or later painted over - especially if it’s written on forbidden places - and because the graffiti somehow belong to everybody. My poetry found its shape also in the books, but it was never as satisfying as the graffiti.

Lately I regard words only as a description of something which is hardly describable with words. I find the painting language more direct, maybe even more primal.

PROJEKTI

• 1990 – Sonček je in ti si skuštrana, grafit na desnem bregu Ljubljanice, Lj.
• 1993 – Grafike na oglasnih panojih Tam-Tam, Lj.

PUBLIKACIJE, AVTORSKE OBJAVE

• 1990 – Knjiga., poezija, samozaložba
• 1991 – Jaz sem namreč cela preko tebe; poezija, MZIN
• 1991 – Tujec; Poka po šivih; poezija, Sodobnost
• 1992 – Privlačnost nesramnih ustnic, proza, samozaložba
• 1992 – Ti si vlak, ne postaja, poezija, Sodobnost
• 1995 – Končni prostor, Likovne besede
• 1999 – Čas, ki mu pripadam, Likovne besede
• 2006 – Tema nad Sredozemskim morjem, katalog, galerija ZDSLU