"In his studio, Sam Winston appears less artist, more linguistic alchemist. He is experimenting with manufacturing inks out of tobacco from Marlboro cigarettes, the juice of Belarusian chokeberries imported in a 100g packet small enough to make it past customs and a strange brew of kohl eyeliner from the Middle East and galena the mineral form of lead sulfide from Wales."
"The coloured substances are used to conjure words on to giant canvas flags that will soon hang from the ceiling of London's Barbican Centre connecting a group of poets' native languages with materials from their native landscapes. The quintet speak marginal or at-risk languages covering five continents, and their newly commissioned poems all speak to their sense of home. If we only have one colour and one paintbrush, that's a disaster"
Sam Winston makes inks from tobacco, Belarusian chokeberries, Middle Eastern kohl and Welsh galena to paint words onto giant canvas flags. The flags will hang from the Barbican Centre ceiling and connect poets' native languages with materials from their landscapes. Five poets representing marginal or at-risk languages across five continents contributed newly commissioned poems about their sense of home. One flag uses kohl to render Arablish from a Hanan Issa poem; another uses wild blueberries to form a Canadian syllabics word for veins by Norma Dunning. The project appears at Voiced and will travel to Manchester.
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