A Blanket Full of Gypsies - Aaron Carson
A Blanket Full of Gypsies is a collaboration between poet Aaron Carson and visual artist Frances Hansen.
Hansen has created original artworks visualising a selection of Carson’s poems - it’s a synthetic magic carpet ride for the mind.
Each page is an adventure. Carson’s "slice of life" observations about the struggles and delights of people, places, and day-to-day life are literally brought to life by Hansen’s lost-and-found "macrodose from the kitchen drawer” artwork.
It’s a circular art conversation. The question is, do you read the poem or look first? Ultimately it doesn't matter. Read and look twice. Try it both ways.
Hansen’s reaction to Carson's poems and the resulting art could have easily been the inspiration for the written work itself. It’s as if Hansen used a mental detector to mine and identify the different bits and pieces that inspired the words - even though the creative process happened in reverse. But... reverse is a good gear at times. “She found the bits I didn’t know I’d lost, which is lucky. Otherwise we’d never have been able to reverse this thing over the finish line". Says Carson.
The first edition of A Blanket Full Of Gypsies is a print run of just 100, each individually numbered. Unique. As they should be.
A Blanket Full of Gypsies is a collaboration between poet Aaron Carson and visual artist Frances Hansen.
Hansen has created original artworks visualising a selection of Carson’s poems - it’s a synthetic magic carpet ride for the mind.
Each page is an adventure. Carson’s "slice of life" observations about the struggles and delights of people, places, and day-to-day life are literally brought to life by Hansen’s lost-and-found "macrodose from the kitchen drawer” artwork.
It’s a circular art conversation. The question is, do you read the poem or look first? Ultimately it doesn't matter. Read and look twice. Try it both ways.
Hansen’s reaction to Carson's poems and the resulting art could have easily been the inspiration for the written work itself. It’s as if Hansen used a mental detector to mine and identify the different bits and pieces that inspired the words - even though the creative process happened in reverse. But... reverse is a good gear at times. “She found the bits I didn’t know I’d lost, which is lucky. Otherwise we’d never have been able to reverse this thing over the finish line". Says Carson.
The first edition of A Blanket Full Of Gypsies is a print run of just 100, each individually numbered. Unique. As they should be.
A Blanket Full of Gypsies is a collaboration between poet Aaron Carson and visual artist Frances Hansen.
Hansen has created original artworks visualising a selection of Carson’s poems - it’s a synthetic magic carpet ride for the mind.
Each page is an adventure. Carson’s "slice of life" observations about the struggles and delights of people, places, and day-to-day life are literally brought to life by Hansen’s lost-and-found "macrodose from the kitchen drawer” artwork.
It’s a circular art conversation. The question is, do you read the poem or look first? Ultimately it doesn't matter. Read and look twice. Try it both ways.
Hansen’s reaction to Carson's poems and the resulting art could have easily been the inspiration for the written work itself. It’s as if Hansen used a mental detector to mine and identify the different bits and pieces that inspired the words - even though the creative process happened in reverse. But... reverse is a good gear at times. “She found the bits I didn’t know I’d lost, which is lucky. Otherwise we’d never have been able to reverse this thing over the finish line". Says Carson.
The first edition of A Blanket Full Of Gypsies is a print run of just 100, each individually numbered. Unique. As they should be.