Eye/Feel/Write: For You

by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé (Editor), Robin Hemley (Contributor), Ovidia Yu (Contributor)

For T. S. Eliot, it must have been an allusion. Memory, or the idea of it. A bit of paint smeared. Smoke from a factory. A cat looking in on a conversation about art. Maybe it’s artifice after all, the same talent and intelligence Picasso spoke of – of painters who can transform “a yellow blot into the sun”.

These pages lay out their own yellow, a canvas on which anything can happen, anything can be rendered, anything said. If everything is indeed a text, what text will inhabit these pages? What images, what stories?

This journal houses one of ten broadsides published for Eye|Feel|Write. These are limited edition collectibles. Commissioned by the National Arts Council, this first instalment has invited ten eminent writers – Robin Hemley, Joshua Ip, Isa Kamari, Alvin Pang, Tan Chee Lay, Jollin Tan, Edwin Thumboo, Ramanathan Vairavan, Yeow Kai Chai and Ovidia Yu – to create ekphrastic responses to artworks in theMedium at Large exhibit at the Singapore Art Museum. Managed by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Eye|Feel|Write opens up the invitation to you, the reader. To engage with the world around you, the beauty that exists within. This is a rarefied and celebrated space, one where art meets literature.

Eye|Feel|Write is a special commission of the Singapore Writers Festival 2014.

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First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is the author of an epistolary novel, a hybrid work, a neo-noir proem suite, and six poetry collections. Founding editor of Squircle Line Press, Desmond has edited over fifteen books and co-produced three audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organisations. Trained in publishing at Stanford, with a world religions Master’s from Harvard and creative writing Master’s from Notre Dame, his honours include the PEN American Center Shorts Prize, Poetry World Cup, Beverly Hills International Book Award, Living Now Book Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, National Indie Excellence Book Award, and USA Regional Excellence Book Award.