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Grandmother
2014
Digital Video, shot on iPhone4
2:25

Grandmother is a poetic and visual exploration of familial ties, the ocean, and the memories that link the two. I believe that poetry is meant to be experienced aloud and thus I was challenged to find a creative way to speak the text without the audio element becoming a mere narration. I utilized my computer’s TextEdit feature to read the text in an electronic “voice” which emanates from a machine instead of from a human body. I love this feature because it complicates themes such as memory, familial ties, and even corporeality, since a computer cannot experience family or memory—it can only replicate them artificially.



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Cameron Price is a poet living in Ann Arbor, MI. His work is forthcoming in Mount Island Magazine, and Written River and has been published in other formats both in print and online. He is the design and visual art editor of Duende, an online literary journal dedicated to showcasing underrepresented voices in the literary ecosystem. He will graduate from Goddard College's BFA in Creative Writing program in the Spring of 2015.