Mirroring Poetry

Mirroring Poetry 1.1

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Description: The Action Researcher/Performer collected poems written on the subject matter of 'mirrors' by famous authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gilles Corrozet and Paul Claudel.  Using a non-permanent marker pen, she then transcribed these texts directly onto mirror surfaces around the city of Paris.  Passers-by stopped to read the words reflected and as a consequence started conversations with one another about their own experience of the city.

 

Baudelaire, C., & Dufay, P. (1863). Les fleurs du mal. Librairie des bibliophiles parisiens.

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