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Lunchbox love notes can be art

May 6, 2021

Blackout poetry on paint chip cards offer twist on traditional form

Lunchbox love note blackout poetry

Know your goal is to waken, soothe, uplift, and add joy and calm down memory lane.

Such is the quirkiness of blackout poetry. Although this morning, it’s Sharpie-dual-tip-purple-out poetry on a paint chip card for another lunchbox love note.

Here’s to using your super powers to do creative things today. And, love you too. 

Day 96/100

Lunchbox love note

Filed Under: Art Projects Tagged With: blackout poetry, creative life, the 100 day project

Blackout poems, paint chips, and lunchbox love notes

April 17, 2021

No matter the form, it’s the thought that counts

Paint chip love note

When I pack my husband’s lunch, I often include a love note. Usually it’s written on whatever scratch pad is handy.

Lately though, I’ve been using paint chips. What I mean are those sample color cards you get in the paint department to see how a tint will look on your wall (or whatever you’re painting).

On one of the first cards I drew an actual “love note” on the front.

I noticed on the flip side a descriptive paragraph and thought “blackout poetry” — where you use a pen to black out sections of text and leave words exposed to form a “poem” or message.

The results were more nonsensical than poetic, but the imagination and brain muscles it took to pull those words to form something that made even a little sense, was strenuous and exhilarating.

And maybe that’s the point of the exercise.

To see things that aren’t there. To shape a new story. Find a new meaning. And have a little fun.

All you need is some text, a pen, and imagination.

Day 77/100

Blackout poetry

Paint chip blackout poem
Paint chip blackout poem
Paint chip blackout poem
Hi! Blackout poem
Paint chip blackout poem
Paint chip love note

Filed Under: Art Projects, Miscellany Tagged With: blackout poetry, creative life, love letters, the 100 day project

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Bex Hall

Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in Kerning, a literary magazine, and in the Stories of Hope Collection in Transplant Living. Her artwork has appeared and sold through the Grayson Gallery. She blogs here about creative life and creates in Studio BE overlooking the Ohio River. Her work in progress is a memoir about the secret life of objects.

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