Dramatic Situations - Corey Wayne Hamilton

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#1793 - 20 Years Of Independance

Posted July 04, 2010 · 10:18 AM

I am a militant individual
I am an antagonistic painter
I am a hard-line poet
And my photos
Are never ambiguous
I am dropping it all
On a community
Made of games
Of tic-tac-toe stalemates
Forget about my movement
And I will come after you
With a Molotov cocktail
And to remember
That my aim is always honest
Infringes on you and your
So called freedom
To procreate

I am a militant individual
I am an antagonistic painter
I am a hard-line poet
And I am an unambiguous
Photographer of alienation
And if you believe
All of my chest thumping
Holier than thou
Only I am the one
Who can do it all
Public should be private
Politics
Then I have a small lake
To sell you
That you can
Conveniently jump in
At you leisure

Posted July 04, 2010

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I paint, write and photograph for myself. Expressing myself is a process of self examination. Having others view and interpret my work is an additional reward. We all see the world differently, and my art is an expression of my perspective. When I began spoken word, and displaying visual work, I realized that other people were adding their impressions to my experience. My contact with this has led me to become more comfortable with people. I now try to add these encounters to my art. By doing this I hope to establish a dialogue with the viewer/listener which creates a cycle of experience and interpretation that feeds the work.

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Corey does not constrain himself to a single discipline - he tackles different forms: He's published a half dozen books of poetry; takes brush in hand and paints canvasses; has formal training in photography and takes photos; is a prolific maker of quirky, short-form video poems; and writes copiously and posts his poems to this site.

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