I created van vliet arts in 2005 as a way of bringing together my three artistic loves: poetry, painting, and jewelry design. Whether I am writing, painting, or creating jewelry I face the same puzzle. It involves the question of placement and the creation of an architecture. The architecture must hold in place the juxtaposition of image, color, word, or shape. As I explore these different genres, I realize time after time how each informs the other. That as I choose color and pattern in making a necklace I am sharpening the tool I use for choosing words and patterns in a poem. As I lay down images in a painting, I am using the tool for which in poetry I place images on the page within a poem.
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