Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2010SYR01
Purchase Details
11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
You also receive…
An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
Medium- and large-format posters are available by custom order. Contact us for details.
Carbonated Jazz
poster information
Description
Carbonated jazz,
sloe gin soul with open mic,
two drink minimum.
Basically, art is meant to be seen, and music is meant to be heard. So is our poetry meant to be spoken. And very often we accomplish that through a business opening its doors to us and to the other various artists in the community. You have a little side room, where whatever the venue is going to be takes place.
On the other hand, you have a whole other room of innocent bystanders, shall we say, who might get drawn in to something they hadn't experienced before. I think that's a fun idea.
It creates a rhyme and a rhythm. Very often there will be art on the wall, and poetry being read, or jazz being played—a wonderful invigorating mix. You never know what you're going to turn up. It's something that energizes my art, and probably everyone else's too.
I moved to Syracuse about a year and a half ago, and my lifestyle changed a little. I got married right before I moved, and we're both in school. So we haven't had time to get out much. But I've always been a fan of music, and going to local acts, open mics, and seeing music in smaller venues. I felt I probably shared that with the poet.
I also liked that this poem was a little timeless. It could be from the 1930s as well as contemporary. So I looked at poster design from the 20s and 30s, and I played off the German Expressionists, through the use of lighting, overlapping shapes, and the illusion of transparency. As a printer, I was thinking, “How could I make this very digital and very colorful poster, and make it appear to be printed in three or four colors?”