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Kaleidoscopix is a series of images--visual poems--created with photos on my iPhone. The pieces are reimaginings and rearrangements of moments captured in photographs. Each one has been played with and manipulated until their original form is unrecognisable. The poems exaggerate and zoom in on the intensities of life, celebrating and finding comfort in shape and colour as an alternative to reality. A modern tech abstract expressionism--turning life into pixelated patterns and digital fabric--Kaleidoscopix creates new atmospheres and meanings. Starting out as much bigger and clearer blocks of images, I went much further into the digital weaving and abstract, to make these kaleidoscope realities. Working with microscopic elements, I trusted in aesthetic experimentation to make a DIY beauty-driven sequence that uses quotidian technology to express the human experience.
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Vik Shirley is a poet, writer & editor from Bristol now living in Edinburgh. Her books include Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Notes from the Underworld (Sublunary Editions), Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid (Hesterglock), One by One (No Press), Poets (The Red Ceilings), Strangers Wave (zimZalla), The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN) and Cassette Poems (above/ground press). Her most recent publication is Some Deer (Broken Sleep) and her next full-length collection, Nervous Tic (Sublunary Editions) is due for publication in Autumn 2025. Vik’s work has appeared in Poetry London, PN Review, The Rialto, Magma, Gutter and Dreaming Awake: New and Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom (MadHat Press). She co-edits Firmament online and Surreal-Absurd at Mercurius. Vik has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry from the University of Birmingham.