1 - What does Visual Poetry mean to you?
Virtual poetry is born of the encounter between the artist and the page's materiality and the hybrid nature of letters and symbols capable of making relevant the limits between images and texts.
2 - Who were and/or are your sources of inspiration, your models (either poets or artistic movements) in this artistic medium?
In the area of the poetics of literature my references are Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos, Mallarmé and the Calligrams of Apollinaire. But also narratives are important forms and in this respect I point out: Hemingway, John dos Passos, Virginia Woolf and Ignácio de Loyola Brandão (Zero). I can’t forget to mention the cyberpoets that marked my literary horizon: the twosome JODI, , Mark Napier, Mark Amerika and Olia Lialiana.
3 - Why did you choose to create, or why do you enjoy creating, Visual Poetry as one of your artistic expressions?
What I write above all is a digital poetry, fruit of the encounter with an alphanumerical cyberspace. I try to always deal with the font symbols as if I were entering the underside of the screen in order to face and converse with the specificity of a writing and a reading that is executed on the web. It’s the poetics of the web that interests me.
4 - When did you first adopt Visual Poetry as a mode of expression?
Then I realized that the production of a critical discourse on the Internet implied the necessity of weaving this discourse dealing with the Net’s own plots, that in itself is poetic, as it mixes with the limits of texts, images and places. On the Web, the text is a condition of the visualization of images that are all addressed in relation to the server, and for that reason make the written text become its own reference to a space without volume.