TEXTure

Artist’s statement

Jennie Kelly

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with texture. Visually, I see it everywhere; the veins of a leaf, the curl of my dogs fur, the crystalline shape of frost creeping up a window. It’s so much a part of how I see the world that I began to wonder if there was a writing equivalent of texture. Is it visual? Like the length of words or sentences on a page? Is it auditory, as in the collection of sounds the words make? Or is it more conceptual, like the pattern of thinking words create in your mind? This poem is my attempt to understand the layers of texture available to us as writers and readers.