Creations
PainterForce Of Nature ~ represents the strength of the feminine spirit. The "tree" has grown out of a rocky precipice, and stands alone, "her" branches have grown blown back by steady winds. I painted this image because within the beauty of any "life landscape" there is pain, there are obstacles, there are abuses ~ and women, strong women, survive. I have survived domestic violence, but am happily married now: I never expected to be "allowed" to have a safe marriage after my first abusive one. I have persevered through lifelong physical disabilities, and as a disabled artist who has endured some hardships and abuses, it is my hope that the painting is inspirational.
Some of my original artwork can be purchased here. Commissions welcome! Contact Alys |
PhotographerSt. Joan At Dawn ~ I took this shot early one morning in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana. Many of my photographs are locations shots from places I have visited, like Louisiana, Florida, Maryland, and California. I also enjoy photographing scenes in my home state of Indiana.
Photographs may be purchased here. |
WriterNaked In Wonderland Volume One, Naked In Wonderland Volume Two, Naked In Wonderland Volume Three, and Naked In Wonderland Volume Four (shown) are collections of my poetry & artwork. They can be purchased on Amazon here and on Lulu here.
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Recent News
11 July 2020
INverse Poetry Archive 2020
Alys Caviness-Gober has been selected by The Indiana Arts Commission and the Indiana State Library to have here of her poems included in the INverse poetry archive in its inaugural year.
All three of Alys’ submitted poems have been approved for the collection:
The Pastel Scarf
Devastation
Recent Convert
Approved poems will be uploaded into the digital archive over the next few weeks and will be available for public access in early Fall.
Although artwork is not included in the archive, Alys created the two paintings below, inspired by two of her selected poems:
INverse Poetry Archive 2020
Alys Caviness-Gober has been selected by The Indiana Arts Commission and the Indiana State Library to have here of her poems included in the INverse poetry archive in its inaugural year.
All three of Alys’ submitted poems have been approved for the collection:
The Pastel Scarf
Devastation
Recent Convert
Approved poems will be uploaded into the digital archive over the next few weeks and will be available for public access in early Fall.
Although artwork is not included in the archive, Alys created the two paintings below, inspired by two of her selected poems:
The Pastel Scarf
(acrylic 11x14)
Alys Caviness-Gober
Devastation
(acrylic 8x10)
Alys Caviness-Gober
A Fun Art & Poetry Project You Can Do At Home:
In February 2018, Alys' was commissioned to lead a Couples' Art Station at Nickel Plate Arts' Valentine's Day "Date Nights" events. Her project submission, Poetry Collage, was selected by NPA staff to be one of the interactive art stations at the three-night event. Couples created their own poems together, using each other as inspiration for their "language patchwork" poems.
About our Poetry Collages:
The joy of creating a poetry collage is in the way words and phrases end up flowing and creating a new narrative. In our project, each couple writes down on colorful papers some words and phrases that represent their relationship and/or the other person. To create the poem, they both play with the arrangement and discover how tone, syntax, mood, and experimenting with placement of the words and phrases allow greater insight into the poetic choices that develop as the poem moves from one line to the next. They then chose some fun embellishments to glue onto the poem to create the collage effect. The end result is a creation that two people have made, in which the individual parts become the whole.
A little history about Poetry Collage:
My interactive couples art project station is a combination of collage and cento. The word collage comes from the French verb coller and literally means to paste, stick, or glue. The cento is an ancient poetic form that traces back more than two thousand years; the word cento is Latin for patchwork. A cento is essentially a language collage, with words and phrases arranged to create a poem. Poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound both used cento principles to create some of their best-known work (The Waste Land and The Cantos, respectively), and New York School poets like Ted Berrigan and John Ashbery and contemporary poets like Simone Muench, Peter Gizzi, and Mary Dalton all have used this poetic form, with notable results.
About our Poetry Collages:
The joy of creating a poetry collage is in the way words and phrases end up flowing and creating a new narrative. In our project, each couple writes down on colorful papers some words and phrases that represent their relationship and/or the other person. To create the poem, they both play with the arrangement and discover how tone, syntax, mood, and experimenting with placement of the words and phrases allow greater insight into the poetic choices that develop as the poem moves from one line to the next. They then chose some fun embellishments to glue onto the poem to create the collage effect. The end result is a creation that two people have made, in which the individual parts become the whole.
A little history about Poetry Collage:
My interactive couples art project station is a combination of collage and cento. The word collage comes from the French verb coller and literally means to paste, stick, or glue. The cento is an ancient poetic form that traces back more than two thousand years; the word cento is Latin for patchwork. A cento is essentially a language collage, with words and phrases arranged to create a poem. Poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound both used cento principles to create some of their best-known work (The Waste Land and The Cantos, respectively), and New York School poets like Ted Berrigan and John Ashbery and contemporary poets like Simone Muench, Peter Gizzi, and Mary Dalton all have used this poetic form, with notable results.