1 - What does Visual Poetry mean to you?
Visual poetry, to me, is poetry impregnated with other codes (besides the verbal), especially those of vision. Vision is the reference, without excluding other dimensions.
2 - Who were and/or are your sources of inspiration, your models (either poets or artistic movements) in this artistic medium?
Before I became a visual poet proper, I was a painter. Fundamental to my background: Mallarmé, Marcel Duchamp, Oswald de Andrade, Cummings, Pop Art
and Concrete Poetry.
3 - Why did you choose to create, or why do you enjoy creating, Visual Poetry as one of your artistic expressions?
As a confluence of languages/codes, the so-called "Visual Poetry" offers me almost everything I find necessary for my artistic expression, my thirst for
the elaboration of language.
4 - When did you first adopt Visual Poetry as a mode of expression?
Since I perceived that, for my work as an artist, lines, forms, colors were not sufficient and that the verbal, in its graphic dimension, was for me imperative, and that the thing was in the hard task of fusing codes and escaping the tradition of the single-object. That was at the end of 1973, beginning of 1974. From the paintings I went on to free scattered poems, little books and magazines.