Within my thrifted copy of "The Celestine Prophecy," there are private scrawlings of the previous owner(s).
These are responses to intimate writing prompts, so I felt as though it was inappropriate for these words to be reused or abused.
From this discovery and discussions regarding “Document” and ownership of creative works, I created this project.
The
Original poem stems from in-class discussions.
It considers creators (of any kind), their inspirations and predecessors, source material, and the complications sprung from the Western notion of ownership.
I provide no answers to these issues. Just another question.
How should creators consider our shared struggles of sourcing and attribution, ownership and claim, and respect and responsibility?
The
Remix poem is fleeting, unique, and questionable in ownership.
The words that are replaced are those from the table of contents of "The Celestine Prophecy."
Each word is replaced with a unique, random word from a list of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
The inspiration for this project is a poem remix website titled "Forever Gwen Brooks" by
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.
The source of the aforementioned wordlists, Bertram's project, and a Wikipedia entry of "The Celestine Prophecy" can be found on
Credits.