The Space Traveler and Wandering - Broadsided July, 2009

"The Space Traveler and Wandering"
Poem by Benjamin Grossberg and Art by Jennifer Bevill

I didn't always wander. Once
I had a small home with a garden.
Another space traveler lived there,
and we had the local equivalent
of a dog. It's hard to say
what happened, but at some point
I found myself converting parts
of our bungalow into a ship....

The Collaborators: Poet Benjamin S. Grossberg's books are "Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath" (2007) and "Sweet Core Orchard" (2009). This poem first appeared in Green Mountains Review. Artist Jennifer Bevill grew up in Alabama. She works as a teaching artist in the Guggenheim Museum's Learning Through Art program and lives in Brooklyn.

Collaborators' Q&A:
When you begin a piece of visual work (or, if that's too broad, when you began this piece), is it color, shape, or some other aspect that you follow?
I had some little cardboard boxes in my studio and I started shaping them into a ship, letting the shape of the boxes dictate the cuts and folds. I didn't want anything fussy or too planned out. I made a couple of others out of toilet paper rolls and those clear plastic container that come from gumball machines, but in the end I liked this one best....
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The Space Traveler and Wandering - Broadsided July, 2009