Glitching While Angry

new work in Glitchy Womyn edited by Kristine Snodgrass & Karla Van Vliet

Image description: painting of a person with red hair painted and overlaid with flowers in red, pink and green. Text: Glitch Womyn, An anthology of women glitching in 2022-23, edited by Kristine Snodgrass & Karla Van Vliet

I am very pleased to have 3 vispo glitches from my series, “Glitching While Angry,” in this new anthology published by Van Vliet Gallery The cover art is by the amazing Amy Rodriguez. This book is yet another piece of luscious fruit in the glorious cornucopia that is the Facebook group, Women Asemic Artists & Visual Poets (WAAVe Global). It joins the other collections by women: WAAVe Global Gallery published by Hysterical Books in 2021, Singing with the Nightingales (A WAAVe Global Response to the Ukraine Situation, Van Vliet Galleries 2022, and Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, Timglaset Editions, 2021.

The FB group is a powerhouse of creativity and support and community, and I am very grateful to be a member. Gratitude especially to Kristine for inviting me to participate in this antho, and to Karla for the gorgeous design. And of course to my fellow contributors for these fun, thoughtful and beautiful works. As Kristine says in her introduction, “As women we are most familiar with concepts of error and mistake. The parameters applied to our gender, performance and being have ultimately resulted in perceived error, and those mistakes have been scrutinized for years. What error did we create today? How have we been judged and even persecuted by error. What interests me is how these challenges are turned into creation. In this book, women reimagine what it is to be an error. We are empowered by art, craft even.”

Image description: left-hand page: an image of a red heart chocolate box filled with a photo of breasts and overlaid with lyrics from Paul McCartney’s Run for Your life. TEXT: 001: Run for Your Life, McCartney and Lennon, “I’d rather see you dead little girl, then see you with another man.” The right-hand page: Glitching While Angry is a series of glitch vispomes that overlay misogynistic song lyrics over naked photos of the artist and distort them using PhotoMorph.

001: Run for Your Life, McCartney and Lennon,

“I’d rather see you dead little girl, than see you with another man.”

002: Alison, Elvis Costello,

“Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking

When I hear the silly things that you say

I think somebody better put out the big light

'Cause I can't stand to see you this way”

003: Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot

“Sundown, you’d better take care, if I find you’ve been creeping down my backstairs.”

I grew up with all of these misogynistic songs, repeating on the radio and even in some cases, I sang to them and thought they were great songs. It angers and sickens me the way patriarchy and misogyny is inculcated into society. There are many more examples of misogynistic lyrics. These pieces are microdestructions of a larger necessary destruction of the patriarchy and everything it stands for.

Coffee is always welcome. As are subscriptions! Have a lovely week, friends.