Poems 1 - 10

Television is all talk, which is of precious little meaning. From the daily brew of sight-and-sound produced by the medium, we distil what we wish to see and hear, and totally disregard the rest. In his "poems", eddie d has adapted the remaining dross – this "televisual waste-in-space" - into an audio visual poem. Hollow words, fixed expressions and meaningless gestures form the framework on which this video is built. Whereas in eddie d's earlier works, the main theme involved the sound of the things, here the emphasis is placed on words. Clattering pans and plopping bottles have given way for the rhythmic repetition of opposing terms, such as: adjusted-maladjusted, sanity-insanity; or contradictory figures of speech (oxymorons) like: cruel kindness, falsely true, etc. When taken out of context, either in a sentence or a story, these words become pure sounds, snatches of resonant tones which, with their own rhythm and intonation tell a very different tale. The poems are a series of works but are all to be seen as independent works. Available with subtitles that add an interesting extra dimension to the spoken words.