CHRISTINE ARVEIL
Art de Vivre

Poetry

“While writing, I discovered that there was no language boundary in my poetry, no translation either: metaphors form themselves in either French or English. The poem encapsulates in a minimalist manner a specific emotion, without limiting the reader’s freedom. I look for a minimalism that renders the energy of life. If a cloud and the wind brushing over green water, brings: ‘A smooth jade swell entangled in an absinthe dream nurses the abyss’, I open doors rather than label the image. I bring in an evocation of sound, too.”
(Waterlines, artist’s interview, 2014)