Saint Olaf College Presentation

Graphic: Shigeo Fukuda

Perception & Visual Poetics Art Foundation Sample Class & brief This presentation had been designed for the consideration of Saint Olaf College’s Search Committee.

It attempts to abide by the rules and regulations explained in the Graphic Standard Manual but by no means it should be considered as an official document of said Institution whatsoever.

It only serves the purpose of conveying a more professional sense of reality to it during the presentation.

March 2009.

Guido E. Alvarez

I MEAN...

perceive

to

verb [ trans. ] 1 become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand .

2 interpret or look on (someone or something) in a particular way; regard as.

motif

noun a decorative design or pattern. a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.

Music a short succession of notes producing a single impression.

composition

noun The action of putting things together; formation or construction : the composition of a new government was announced.

Linguistics the formation of words into a compound word. • Mathematics the successive application of functions to a variable, the value of the first function being the argument of the second, and so on : composition of functions, when defined, is associative.

POEM

noun a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.

CON CRETE POETRY

noun (SHOULD ALSO BE A VERB!) poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices