Poetic lists are must more flexible than practical or personal lists in that they could convey a million different meanings depending on who was reading them and the interpretations can be vastly different from person to person based on their own lived experiences. In contrast to a practical list where I said that it wouldn’t make sense to go from apples to a horse in a shopping list, in a poetic list it could be an entirely plausible jump depending on the function this writer intended for the poetic list. Frankham (2013) argues that a poetic list can be an experience in itself and introduces relational aesthetics as a concept which is used to allow for a relationship between the audience and the art.

In my experience this week, I played around with a list of romance.
– Candles
-Red wine
-Pasta
-Rumpled sheets
-Strawberries
-Two toothbrushes

In class we discussed how aesthetics is used in poetic videos to trigger an emotion or memory for the audience or provide a glimpse into the mind of the creator so with that in mind I decided to add hints of red to most shots to hint towards romance or love. My experiment is more of a mosaic as its fragments of a whole story and I tried to play around with rhythm by repeating the candle shot in flashes that could resemble a heartbeat that got faster as the night wore on. I’m not sure if it works but it was fun to play around with.

References:

Frankham, B.L., 2013. Complexity, flux and webs of connection,’ in: A Poetic Approach to Documentary: Discomfort of Form, Rhetorical Strategies and Aesthetic Experience. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney. pp. 137-176.